Panelist Said Trump Is Radicalizing People More Than ISIS, And Jake Tapper Did Nothing About It

Oh. So NOW Jake Tapper is suddenly devoted to keeping it objective and staying out of the panel discussion? Convenient.

GQ’s Julia Ioffe appeared on a CNN panel and decided to utter one of the most ridiculous things ever said on CNN. She said that Trump has “radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did.”

If it sounds like she’s comparing Trump to ISIS, it’s because she’s comparing Trump to ISIS. Reminder– ISIS is the radical Islamic group that throws gays off rooftops, beats and gang rapes women and children and beheads people for not adhering to their bloodthirsty ideology.

This might be one of the most ridiculous things ever said on @CNN.@GQMagazine's @juliaioffe just claimed @realDonaldTrump has "radicalized so more people than ISIS ever did."

Sheer lunacy.

And oh by the way, no push-back from @jaketapper. pic.twitter.com/suFC2WKHya

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 29, 2018

At the end, she attempted to “clarify” her remarks, but only after the RNC flipped out.

.@jaketapper gives @juliaioffe time to clean up her comments near the end of the #TheLead. Ioffe says her rhetoric "was not factual." pic.twitter.com/X9Gwqx4ysQ

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 29, 2018

@juliaioffe apologizes on CNN for saying that Donald Trump “radicalized more people than Isis” pic.twitter.com/PEZ08N7VUy

— Jon Nicosia 🇺🇸 (@NewsPolitics) October 29, 2018

But still. The fact of the matter remains. When it happened in the “heat of the moment,” Jake Tapper made no attempt to challenge her.

As i explained live on air, I went right to @monacharenEPPC and @DavidJUrban to debate her, and they were eager to do so. It’s a panel not an interview.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 29, 2018

NOT true. You would have jumped in to defend Obama or Clinton.. we know it and so do you. You would have cut the mics on your "panel" to scream at that shrew, IF she said that about O or H.

— SuSu C (@CSoconway) October 30, 2018

If a pro-Trump commentator had said that you'd have challenged them directly and you know it. https://t.co/qhU5hvHEsq

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) October 30, 2018

Exactly. We all know it. That’s what makes this so infuriating.

Something tells me that if the same comment had been made by a Trump supporting panelist about Hillary or Obama, you would have pushed back.

— Rampage Rich (@RichBeeker) October 30, 2018

Panelist @juliaioffe apologizes for hyperbolic comparison earlier in the show https://t.co/VqLJIf5DtE @TheLeadCNN

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 29, 2018

later in the show she apologized and took it back

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 29, 2018

I immediately went to the two Republicans on the panel who were eager to debate what she was saying. That’s what happens on panels. Julia later in the show apologized for her comments and took it back.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 29, 2018

Instead of challenging her outrageous statement, you strategized during the break about the best way to get her out of trouble, gave her extra airtime to rehabilitate herself, then endorsed her fake apology for something she doubled down on. https://t.co/5ijRpBDRX8

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 30, 2018

That’s exactly what happened.

One of the largest perpetual lies in all of broadcast media, and it's a crowded field, is that Jake Tapper is a centrist. He's a vicious partisan who pretends to be a straight shooter on Twitter, yet that persona never seems to transfer to CNN.

— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) October 30, 2018

Come on Jake. You’re not fooling anyone.