CNN: Obama To Retain White House “When Trump Is Assassinated”

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CNN's coverage of the upcoming inauguration took a dark turn on Wednesday when they suggested that Obama would retain the White House following an inevitable Trump assassination.

CNN’s coverage of the upcoming inauguration took a dark turn on Wednesday when they suggested that Obama would retain the White House following an inevitable Trump assassination.

CNN host Wolf Blitzer enthusiastically presented a segment that pondered on what would happen if Trump was killed at Friday’s inauguration ceremony.

On the Jan. 18 broadcast of The Situation Room, Blitzer asked viewers to ponder the question: “Who would be in charge if an attack hit the incoming president….just as the transfer of power is underway?

Infowars.com reports:

An individual named the “designated presidential successor” will not attend the inauguration as a security precaution, “but it won’t be a Trump cabinet secretary….it will be an Obama appointee,” reports CNN.




The report emphasizes that “a president from the prior administration” will take power if there is an attack due to the fact that none of Trump’s cabinet secretaries have been confirmed yet.

According to CNN, the designated presidential successor is likely to be Tom Shannon, the Under Secretary For Political Affairs, and an Obama appointee.

The report teases the potential for an attack on the inauguration by asserting it would create “chaos” and “high theater,” before airing clips from ABC’s Designated Survivor show in which Kiefer Sutherland plays an obscure cabinet secretary who is “unexpectedly thrust into the presidency after an attack at the capitol during a State of the Union address.”

Given the huge number of death threats leveled at Trump – including one family friend of Hillary Clinton who was arrested after he threatened to assassinate Trump at the inauguration – is CNN irresponsible in drawing attention to this issue?

Respondents to the video on YouTube, which was heavily thumbed down, slammed CNN for almost encouraging a violent attack against Trump.

“Totally not suggesting anything here, huh CNN?” commented one.

“So leftist terrorists know who they need to take out, so that dems can stay in power? This is irresponsible journalism,” added another.

“I flagged this video as dangerous to the president elect, and that it might foment violence,” wrote another.

The charges are not without precedent. After Thomas DiMassimo tried to rush the stage to violently confront Trump during an event in Ohio last year, CNN gave him a platform to denounce Trump as a “bully”.

4 Comments

  1. CNN should be ashamed of themselves! Your reputation says it all. WE don’t need you. WE don’t want you. Get lost already!

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      Adviser for Strategic Communications. ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is
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      reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obama’s Deputy Press
      Secretary ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama’s Special Adviser
      Elizabeth Sherwood CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to former Hillary
      Clinton’s Deputy Secretary Tom Nides. And now you know why it is no surprise
      the media usually goes very easy on Hillary’s & Obama’s many errors.
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