CNN senior political analyst John Avlon gave an unofficial donate to Biden 2024 on Friday’s CNN This Morning as he hailed his Thursday speech “about threats to democracy” and “bipartisanship” while Republicans launch their “farcical impeachment inquiry.”
Host Poppy Harlow was certain that Avlon would have something intelligent to say, “Can you give us—you’re so good at always explaining this with the historical context. It's not normal to have this many impeachment inquiries in this short a span of time?”
Avlon agreed while also making sure to add that the impeachments of Donald Trump were not partisan hit jobs, “Not remotely. I mean, the first impeachment inquiry’s Andrew Johnson after the Civil War. The second, you got to fast-forward 100-plus years to Richard Nixon. Then you’ve got Bill Clinton and then you’ve got two Trumps, right? Both of which, by the way, I would argue hit that standard.”
As for the current inquiry into Biden, Avlon did not, in fact, have anything intelligent to say, “This is simply a tit for tat acceleration cycle and by the way, not for nothing, but the split screen yesterday between, you know, President Biden giving a speech about threats to democracy at … [the] McCain Institute in Arizona and this, you know, sort of, farcical impeachment inquiry by historic standards, that tells you everything you need to know about the bizarro state of our politics right now.”
What is “bizarro” is that CNN, and the rest of the media, continues to pretend that Joe Biden is the only thing preventing the collapse of democracy and that he did nothing wrong by while simultaneously acting as if Democrats were ever not going to impeach Trump for something.
Here is a transcript for the September 29 show:
CNN This Morning
9/29/2023
6:24 AM ET
POPPY HARLOW: Can you give us—you’re so good at always explaining this with the historical context. It's not normal to have this many impeachment inquiries in this short a span of time?
JOHN AVLON: Not remotely. I mean, the first impeachment inquiry’s Andrew Johnson after the Civil War. The second, you got to fast-forward 100-plus years to Richard Nixon. Then you’ve got Bill Clinton and then you’ve got two Trumps, right? Both of which, by the way, I would argue hit that standard. This is simply a tit for tat acceleration cycle and by the way, not for nothing, but the split screen yesterday between, you know, President Biden giving a speech about threats to democracy at John McCain Institute--
HARLOW: At the McCain Institute.
AVLON: Right, bipartisanship. McCain Institute in Arizona and this, you know, sort of, farcical impeachment inquiry by historic standards, that tells you everything you need to know about the bizarro state of our politics right now.
