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CNN panel bizarrely fixates on Trump opening door for himself: ‘That alone will stick with him’

April 5, 2023 | | Print Article

When the Trump-hating media has little to run with, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg left them with little to work with, they have to improvise and that’s just what CNN viewers were treated to on Tuesday as the network obsessed over Donald Trump being indicted on trumped-up charges that are not likely to stand the scrutiny of the judicial system, as skewed as it is.

CNN coverage featured Washington anchor Jake Tapper reading Trump’s mind via still photography inside a Manhattan criminal court.

“He’s looking right at the camera, I mean the photographers are there, the still photographers are there, he’s looking at them while his attorneys are conferring,” Tapper said, before adding that Trump “doesn’t look like somebody who thinks that the indictment is nonsense.”

Host Anderson Cooper weighed in to take note that no one held the door open for Trump on his way into the courtroom, suggesting that this may be the first time the former president has had to open a door for himself “in quite some time.” To be fair, the officer ahead of Trump seemed task-focused on getting to his next assigned point ahead of the trailing entourage.

Someone can be heard snickering off-camera as they run the footage, this being standard fare for the network:

“It’s also interesting, Jake. I mean, he’s just been through a process, which, as Van [Jones] pointed out earlier, I mean, every criminal defendant goes through,” Cooper said. “As he entered the hall of the 15th floor, he didn’t even have somebody holding the door open for him. I don’t know if you noticed and we could replay that video at some point of him making appearance on the hall.

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“There’s a court officer I believe who enters before him, doesn’t hold the door open for him and the former president actually has to push the door open for himself, which is probably the first time he’s had to do that in quite some time,” he added.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former Trump White House Director of Strategic Communications, took a stab at the nothing-burger to suggest the moment he opened the door for himself would “stick with him.”

“That alone, knowing Donald Trump, will stick with him in a way, just a symbolic way of noticing that,” she observed. “The difference, the lack of pomp and circumstance, the lack of, sort of, you know, service being provided for him. Just that moment, that could have been a stark one that stands out to him.”

Of course, CNN serves this nothing-burger up because that’s the fare the network’s base wants. Here’s a quick sampling of responses from Twitter that shows the left ate it up and begged for more:

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