Kind Of Getting Through?

Trump, today, reposted on his social account:

-AI images of his perceived enemies in orange jumpsuits
-Calls for the indictment of the members of the J6 Select Committee
-A call for the arrest of Jack Smith
-A call for public military tribunals for President Obama/others pic.twitter.com/ZO0QZNlprC

— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) August 28, 2024

That tweet is notable (to me) because Maggie Haberman retweeted it.  And on CNN:

"You say that Donald Trump was a candidate of stability. Why was Donald Trump over the last 36 hours on his social media re-posting slogans from QAnon and reposting misogynistic, sexist content about Vice President Harris?"

[Karoline] Leavitt [Trump's national press secretary] argued that CNN's viewers were not concerned about social media posts, but were instead worried about reports of crime by undocumented migrants and gas prices but Berman pressed on, asking if she knew why Trump had posted sexually demeaning comments about Harris and Hillary Clinton.

"Karoline, Karoline – do you know why he posted that?" Berman asked. "Do you know why he reposted that content?"

Leavitt paused for a moment and said the same thing that campaign senior aide Jason Miller told CNN's Kasie Hunt earlier Thursday, saying she hadn't had a chance to speak to the former president since he shared the lewd post. She then piled on a series of attacks on Harris before the host took up the question yet again.

"I do want to ask you again, the social media content reposted by the Republican nominee in the last 36 hours, how do you explain it?" Berman said. "How do you explain why he is reposting content from QAnon and this misogynist content?"

Leavitt argued that the unconnected murders of three women by migrants were more demeaning than Trump's social media activity, but Berman said voters can care about multiple issues at once — and pressed again for an explanation.

"When there's content being reposted that uses QAnon slogans and when there are these sexist, misogynistic posts, it's interesting to me that you can't, you're not – you don't think they're bad," he said. "You have no problem with them."

ICYMI (and only because of that), this is what Berman is talking about:

What a day:

• Trump posting a photo of Kamala Harris with Hillary Clinton and a caption about blow jobs

• Vance telling Kamala Harris "she can go to hell"

Things must be a lot worse than we think inside the #TrumpVance2024 campaign

Constant disrespect for women https://t.co/0tGjdfak7N pic.twitter.com/xA0TtlInej

— ‏ًً (@politicalplayer) August 28, 2024

I don't mind watching Trump people trying to defend the indefensible.  I enjoy it even more when journalists make them try.