Jake Tapper: Trump Succeeded to Scare Many of Our Media Colleagues Away and They Failed to Rise to the Challenge

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TAPPER: “Yeah, I do. I think that, you know, we’ve been calling out lies from Donald Trump since 2015, 2016. I remember the first time like I did like a homily is when he was going after Ted Cruz’s dad over the Kennedy assassination, that nonsense. And I said this isn’t a pro-cruz position or an anti-Trump position. It’s a pro-truth position. I think that was in spring 2016. And I think that that position, the idea of I’m going to take the stand, I don’t care if you falsely label me a tool of this party or that party, this is the truth. I think that Donald Trump succeeded with many of our colleagues in, you know, throwing the ball close to the batter so that they were scared, the brush ball. I think he scared people away. And I think a lot of our colleagues failed to rise to the challenge. Now, look, I also think there are people on the far left that went way too far, you know, calling Trump hitler, and I think people on the far right who defended every single thing he did no matter what it was. But I’m not talking about the extremes right now when I’m talking about my disappointment.”