This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the latest example of Trump Derangement Syndrome, with an influential Democrat and former House leader accusing President Trump of being an “accessory” to murder for delaying funds to Ukraine.
As one of the panelists Friday night on HBO’s Real Time, former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank dismissed previous reasons for impeaching Trump as he focused on the Ukraine phone call.
“I almost got the feeling it was like trying Al Capone for tax evasion,” he said.
But now with the transcript of Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, “we’ve got him for extortion and being an accessory, I believe, to murder.”
Host Bill Maher could be heard, off camera, being taken aback by the charge: “Murder?” But as Frank elaborated, on how Trump allowed “murder by the Russians of Ukrainians” by “delaying the self-defense weapons that Ukraine needed,” Maher fell in line, “oh I see” and “that’s right.”
Frank on the Sept. 27 Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO:
“Some of the stuff that they were talking about impeaching him from before, trying to cover up that he paid to cover-up his sex with Stormy Daniels, or being rude to James Comey, which almost everybody wants to be. I almost got the feeling it was like trying Al Capone for tax evasion, but now we’ve got him for extortion and being an accessory, I believe, to murder. I mean, let’s be clear, murder by the Russians of Ukrainians. We forget what the context is. The Russians, his friend Putin, are invading a peaceful, democratic country. Congress voted to give weapons to that country to defend itself against an attack. He was withholding those until he got threatened even by Lindsey Graham, that was too much even for him. But what he was saying basically, he was delaying the self-defense weapons that Ukraine needed.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Quite a serious charge to make, a sign of how liberals are so enraged by Trump that they go to extremes to impugn him. And that’s to say nothing of how Frank’s theory is undercut by the fact that Trump, unlike former President Barack Obama, pushed to provide arms to Ukraine to fight Russia. So, by Frank’s logic, Obama should also be accused of being an accessory to murder.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
