CNN Foiled Again In Attempt To Make NATO Leader Denounce Trump

They try. Oh how they try. It seems that whenever CNN has NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on as a guest, the conversation eventually steers toward getting him to criticize Trump. They attempted this pathetic shtick in January when Poppy Harlow tried to elicit a slam against Trump from Stoltenberg but got only praise for Trump from the Secretary General. You would think CNN would have learned from this but noooo. They repeated themselves on Monday during News Central. Host Kate Bolduan kicked off the interview by asking Stoltenberg about Sweden becoming the latest member of NATO and then the conversation turned to Ukraine. However, as we later found out, Bolduan really only had one primary agenda for the interview... getting an Orange Man Bad quote from the NATO Secretary General. And just like with Poppy Harlow she ended up sorely disappointed with the response.

Bolduan even pulled the same trick out the CNN hat as Harlow by presenting a video clip of Donald Trump saying something critical of NATO. And just as with Harlow, the interview boomeranged again but this time on poor Kate instead of Poppy. Bolduan goes through the motions of acting as if she is interested in the new membership of Sweden in NATO. After some preliminary back and forth with Stoltenberg in which the discussion touched on Ukraine, we find out what really interests her when Bolduan pulls out a Donald Trump clip in ready reserve. After she played the clip Bolduan attempted to get the Trump criticism from Stoltenberg that Harlow failed to do in January.

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