Historian Allan Lichtman suffered a meltdown on CNN, accusing them and other media outlets of helping former President Donald Trump’ by showing Joe Biden‘s disastrous debate performance.
Biden trailed off several times during the debate while mumbling incoherently, leading to concerns from top Democrats over his fitness for another presidential term.
However, Lichtman claimed that networks broadcasting highlights from the debate are playing a role “in Donald Trump gaslighting his way to the presidency and threatening our democracy.”
“I love you guys in the media, but I have to say you are complicit in Donald Trump lying and conning his way to the presidency,” Lichtman said.
“All the attention has been on Biden’s faltering debate. But Donald Trump’s debate was vastly worse.”
“It was based entirely on lies. More than 30 significant lies. That’s one lie for about every one minute and 20 and 30 seconds,” he said.
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“He threatened our democracy by saying he wouldn’t accept necessarily the results of a fair election.”
“He said he would seek retribution. Why wasn’t that the headline?”
“Why wasn’t that the greatest concern from the debate rather than all the focus on Joe Biden?” he continued.
“There’s an old saying: ‘It’s not just the evil people who wreak havoc on the world. It’s the good people who don’t do enough to stop them.'”
“And the media right now is complicit in Donald Trump gaslighting his way to the presidency and threatening our democracy.”
A number of prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, called for Biden to step aside from the presidential race following the fallout from the debate.
However, replacing Biden would likely face practical, political, and even legal obstacles for Democrats.
On Monday, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claimed that it is just “elites” who are worrying about Biden’s debate performance.
However, CNN host John Berman pushed back.
“I just don’t think that’s true, congresswoman … I just think that anyone who was anywhere this weekend, talking to anybody, the subject of discussion was the debate and was President Biden’s performance,” Berman said.
“I don’t think that that discussion is only members of Congress.”
