Atlantic Editor: Hillary Scandals ‘Little Firecrackers,’ Trump’s ‘Are Real Blockbusters That Bring Down City Blocks’
Really?!
11.1.2016
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On Tuesday’s New Day, CNN contributor and senior editor of The Atlantic David Frum made a wild comparison regarding the scope of scandals by both presidential candidates.
Speaking with host Chris Cuomo, Frum insisted that Hillary Clinton’s bombshells are not equivalent to Donald Trump’s. That might be something on which we can agree, but he takes a sharp left turn as he explains further.
Cuomo asked if any of the Wikileaks revelations or FBI chief James Comey re-opening the investigation into Clinton’s e-mails matter enough to change voters’ minds. Frum said it might have an effect on the “less affluent, less educated” constituency that the Democratic Party attracts.
“If they get the idea that everybody’s equally bad, they’re likely to stay at home and that hurts Democrats disproportionately,” he said.
Then, somehow, Frum said the Clinton scandals that include lying under oath, grossly mishandling classified e-mails, and on and on are just “little firecrackers” — no big deal — while Trump’s locker-room talk is straight out of a Hollywood disaster film:
“But notice that list of bombshells. Those are not equivalent bombshells. The news of Hillary Clinton's speeches to Goldman Sachs, I would certainly feel bitter if I had paid $350,000 and that's what I got. And likewise, these Comey revelations, these are not big reveals. Meanwhile, the discovery that a nominee for president bragged about how he liked to grab women or the revelation that he hopes to profit from a hostile foreign power's manipulation of a U.S. election? You know, one are little firecrackers that you set off at a tent ceremony. The other, these are real blockbusters that bring down city blocks.”
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