Michael Anton, the former national security official for the Trump administration, and the guy who famously wrote the “Flight 93 Election” bashing people for not supporting Trump, now cannot defend what he did in Helsinki.
Erin Burnett announced his decision with glee on CNN:
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1018999837046525953 https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1019001714903568384 https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1019001184554749953"Michael Anton was going to be here ... he canceled, and he knows I'm going to tell you this, because he said he could not defend the president on his actions today." - Erin Burnett explains the absence of Trump's fmr. National Security Council spokesman https://t.co/VYnxxVD4Je pic.twitter.com/nveQk3mvTy
— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) July 16, 2018
By the way, unless CNN's express booking requirement was "we need someone to defend Trump" (and this is sometimes how it goes on cable news), then it was a Total Cuck Move for Michael Anton to cancel. He should have gone on and spoken his truth.
— Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) July 17, 2018
Here he was yesterday saying nothing big was going to come out of the meeting:
Michael Anton on Trump, Putin meeting: "This is only the second formal meeting that these two presidents will have had. The last one was about a year ago. Relations between the two countries have only gotten worse in the meantime." #SpecialReport https://t.co/y9Dd1TbrHz pic.twitter.com/IqIuE2OcSr
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 15, 2018
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UPDATE!!!
Michael Anton released a statement bashing CNN and offering a different view about what happened – but not exactly denying the statement they put out:
https://twitter.com/WiredSources/status/1019050312366247936I’m not sure I buy it just because it wasn’t CNN coverage that was awful on this – Trump has been excoriated by tons of people on both sides and many of his own supporters.