“I don’t know if the president even saw the comment that was on there,” Jason Miller suggested, nonsensically.

Trump advisor Jason Miller stopped by CNN This Morning on Thursday, and was left squirming when anchor Kasie Hunt confronted him about Donald Trump’s recent Truth Social post that featured a screenshot of an image of younger Kamala Harris smiling next to Hillary Clinton, with a caption underneath that read, “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently.”

“What would you say to the vice president of the United States about the comment that [Trump] reposted?” Hunt asked.

“Well, I saw the social media post,” Miller replied. “I have not discussed that with the president. I don’t know if the president even saw the comment that was on there or simply the picture.”

Miller then quickly pivoted to accuse Democrats of attacking Trump with even more vitriol, telling Hunt, “The attacks that have been levied by Kamala Harris’ campaign and by Harris’ allies against President Trump — not just recently but over the past year and a half, two years, ever since he came down the escalator, quite frankly—in the case of many leftist-centered people, have been quite horrific.”

Hunt asked Miller if he thought the criticisms against Trump have been “as horrific” as the image Trump had reposted. Miller replied, “Oh, a hundred times worse.”

“But they haven’t been sexual in nature in this way,” Hunt pointed out.

“Again, I haven’t discussed that with the president,” Miller said. “I don’t know if the president even saw the comment that was on there. That’s not something that I have asked.”

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    78·
    3 months ago

    Oh, a hundred times worse.

    !!!

    What an absolute despicable liar.
    Arguably the worst thing Harris has called Trump is “felon”, and that is true.

    But next Jason Miller will probably claim that because it’s true it’s worse, and Trump is crying himself to sleep every night over it, because he is such a spoiled cry baby.

    • logicbomb@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 months ago

      Isn’t that the point in the interview, after Jason Miller says that the Harris campaign did something 100x worse, when you tell Miller that since he knows something that much worse, he should give an actual example?

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        The interview is OK, although they could have been more direct on that.
        Jason Miller is still a despicable liar.

        • Toto@lemmy.world
          12·
          3 months ago

          “I don’t know if he even saw the comment” implies he thinks Trump would post a smiling picture of K&H with no context. Yea, that sounds like him

          • bradinutah
            4·
            3 months ago

            There’s no way this isn’t 100% misogyny by Weird 34. Another example to throw on the mountainous heap.

    • Hazzia@infosec.pub
      9·
      3 months ago

      She also called him weird which, based on their responses, I can only conclude is the modern equivalent of being stripped naked in the public square and forced to dance upon hot coals while being prodded with iron spikes by the King’s guard.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    3 months ago

    “Well, I saw the social media post,” Miller replied. “I have not discussed that with the president. I don’t know if the president even saw the comment that was on there or simply the picture.”

    Why would a Trump advisor discuss it with Biden? Does Jason Miller have dementia?

    Tap for spoiler

    Yes I know about the convention of addressing former presidents as “president.” Trump does not fucking deserve that courtesy, not even the slightest bit!

    • whereisk@lemmy.world
      27·
      3 months ago

      Wouldn’t the next question be “if he’s unable to process or notice that a single simple caption under the image exists, how could he be trusted to process information pertinent to running a nation?”

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world
        8·
        3 months ago

        He is straight up illiterate. I watched a video where an actor working with him on some show said he couldn’t read his lines - he insisted on making up his own lines.

      • barsquid@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        Unfortunately bigotry is what his voters are looking for. Posting bigoted content and then lying when he is caught is what they want to see.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      71·
      3 months ago

      It’s a title, used like “President Obama.” I don’t think normal people say “the president” about former ones. This is weird conduct.

        • barsquid@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 months ago

          I agree. I think “Mr. Obama” is appropriate 2017 and onward. But like is noted there, “President Obama,” is still at least a common mistake, I could see how that extends into formal settings as well.

          I don’t think “the president” is common. Nor a mistake, coming from that source.

  • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    58·
    3 months ago

    Don’t forget that CNN has shifted with the Overton Window to the right.

    CNN is just about what Faux News was when it first launched. They pander to both sides but just a little more to the right.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      There is an author that wrote a book about 20 years ago that was his mea culpa for helping CNN to create the shout show format. I’m not sure they’ve ever really been even half as “liberal” as the unhinged right wing claims.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Yes, good point. I was going to mention that Firing Line with Bill F’ing Buckley was on PBS long before then, too. And PBS is supposedly the network of Karl Marx, if you are to believe the unhinged right wing.

          And that’s after Buckley called Vidal a queer and threatened him with violence.

          Firing Line is something the people at CNN were most likely influence by. I wish I could remember the name of that book and the name of the person that wrote it, but I bet they even said something about Firing Line.

          In any case, this stuff has been going on for a very long time, on my supposedly “liberal media” television stations…LOL.

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    45·
    3 months ago

    Amazing. His defense is that trump maybe just shared a sexed up, generated image of Harris without reading the caption. What a creep.

    • captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee
      10·
      3 months ago

      Trump also blamed others for the Arlington scandal.

      “I want to run the whole country, but I don’t take responsibility for any of my own actions”.

    • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 months ago

      Fucking hell! I was so confused why this guy needed to talk to Biden. It’s ex-president or if you’re being detailed felon, rapist, racist, pedophile, twice impeached, ex-president.

      • Clent@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 months ago

        Defeated former president.

        Every other presidential candidate election during my lifetime has conceded. He was resoundingly defeated.

  • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
    38·
    3 months ago

    I hate watching mainstream US news media. No push back to blatant lies. Instead they sit and smile. Instead of fair and balance we should strive for facts. I don’t give a shit that left or right has the same amount to talk, I care what they are saying is factual.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 months ago

      I hate it as well. These large media outlets have suffered complete journalistic bankruptcy.

    • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here,

      I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear,

      Come and whisper in my ear,

      Give us dirty laundry

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    30·
    3 months ago

    I don’t know if the president even saw the comment that was on there

    In a lot of ways, Trump is a lazy and unserious person. But I do not believe for a second that he was not aware of what was being posted on his social media. That is his greatest obsession.

    • Red_October@lemmy.world
      39·
      3 months ago

      It seems like every other day, Trump does something that would have been absolutely career-ending for anyone else. I think he’s kept his campaign from going down the toilet by just making sure it was completely clogged.

      • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
        6·
        3 months ago

        Trump operates by slowly moving the bar. He incrementally pushes the boundaries of acceptability, to the point that now nothing is surprising anymore. As a result, he can do these things that should be career ending, because his supporters laugh it off and his detractors, disgusted as they may be, still expect this behavior from Trump.

    • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      131·
      3 months ago

      You would think that, but I just listened to an extended family member the other day talking about how “Harris slept her way to the top,“ and it’s comments like his going around that reinforce this idea.

      You’d be surprised how effective these “a lot of people are saying” comments can be. You just put up the scaffolding, the pundits start over interpreting and adding general statements that are lies but too broad to be easily pinned down, YouTubers and breitbart and such amplify it and make it way worse for the fringes, and then millions of people just roll with it.

      Bear in mind the person who said that to me is an intelligent, educated woman. But her partisan lean is so heavy she just accepts stuff like that.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        8·
        3 months ago

        My own mother “chose” to believe misleading Fox stats on officer-involved shootings after I did a web search and provided a much higher number. She said that. “I’m choosing to believe…”. You don’t need to convince me of how much people will delude themselves.

        • bradinutah
          3·
          3 months ago

          It takes courage to accept you’ve been conned by a Weird Grifter from New York.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        3 months ago

        the person who said that to me is an intelligent, educated woman. But her partisan lean is so heavy she just accepts stuff like that.

        Kind of an oxymoron.

          • can@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            3 months ago

            I don’t claim to be any exception. I’d just stueggule to call someone that répands that way “smart” without adding any qualifiers.

            • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              2·
              3 months ago

              You know literally nothing about this person other than they are a woman, they hold 1 bad opinion you that know of, and that I qualified them as educated/intelligent. But please continue to lecture me about their cognitive faculties.

              A lot of smart people hold a lot of wrong/bad ideas.

              • can@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                3 months ago

                Hey man, I’m sorry, I was speaking more broadly about the type of person, rather than the specific individual, and I do need to work on my black-and-white thinking. Absolutely nothing to do with being a woman, the comment actually reminded me of a man in my life with similar views and I’ve had to come to the conclusion that I should value his opinions less.

                Edit: also, I’d hardly call my two short comments (one I clearly didn’t proofread) a “lecture”.

                A lot of smart people hold a lot of wrong/bad ideas.

                That’s a concept I’ve had difficulty wrestling with

    • mercano@lemmy.world
      9·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, but Trump famously needs to flush eight or ten times to actually get anything to go down the toilet.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    These BS artists just spew lie after lie as a jumping off point to the question, and don’t even try to answer the question.

  • numlok@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    I don’t know if the president even saw the comment that was on there or simply the picture.

    Hmmm… Maybe his advanced age might have something to do with his not being fully aware or in control of his actions?