Ex-Trump staffer says conservative media 'brainwashed' her into hating Democrats

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October 28, 2020
By Matthew Chapman

On CNN Wednesday, Jessica Denson, the former coordinator of the Trump 2016 campaign’s Hispanic outreach who starred in a recent ad for Joe Biden, opened up about how she was taken in by the Trump campaign — and why he must be defeated.

“My motive to go and help that campaign and be of service to the American people was sabotaged, and I’ve seen my experience repeated in the experience of one public servant after another over the past four years,” said Denson, who spearheaded a lawsuit to free former Trump campaign officials from nondisclosure agreements. “I have seen that this campaign continues to go out brandishing a Bible and an American flag and claiming that they have anything to do with freedom, but I’ve lived first-hand that they have nothing to do with freedom. They have worked very much against free speech and democracy.”

“Let me ask you a question,” said anchor Jake Tapper. “You went to work for President Trump, or candidate Trump, in 2016, doing Hispanic outreach. He launched his campaign casting aspersions on the kind of people crossing the border in Mexico, saying that they were rapists and drug dealers, and some, I’m sure, are good people, which offended a lot of Latinos and a lot of other people. So I’m sure a lot of people in the Latino community said, you must have known what you were getting in to you went to work for him. What did you tell them?”

“I tell them it’s a fair perspective,” said Denson. “But I spent the better part of eight years watching conservative media, being brainwashed into thinking the Democrats were really dangerous and were going to take away our freedoms, which I don’t believe anymore. I understand how deeply mesmerized I was into that false narrative. And I thought that Donald Trump was going to be a fighter for the American people. So I kind of put the best construction on everything he said and — father forgive me — believed him in his con, that he was going to put his own interest aside and be a public servant for this country.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/ex-trump-staffer-says-conservative-media-brainwashed-her-into-hating-democrats/

[Arazi]

1. I have to believe there will be others who wake up or we're fucked

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Quite The Admission

She's not only opened her eyes to being duped, but she's openly admitting she got suckered!
There are few people more passionate than a reformed [insert condition here].
She could turn out to be an asset in the future.

[bdamomma]

23. She woke

up and saw the LIGHT!!!!

I hope more do.

I heard this saying and it still holds its meaning today.

Americans are biggest BS'ers and the easiest to BS.

[Dan]

30. She woke up to the knowledge that

Donald Trump was going to lose....

[Squinch]

3. Seems like a lot of people are coming out of the woodwork to say they were anonymously

working against the administration all along, or they were "mesmerized" or whatever. Seems like their outing themselves corresponds with when they think there is no more cash to be had or they need to distance themselves from the fallout.

These are rats leaving the ship. I wouldn't trust any of them.

[ace3csusm]

5. I'm with you its the rats jumping ship

Sorry but I dont believe her, I knew who he was when he came down those stairs...everyone knew he was a con man...

[Squinch]

6. And she didn't notice that he was spouting racist crap against Latinos 24/7? Bull.

[ace3csusm]

11. I knew it was just the beginning and it would not stop at Latinos, they never do...

This is how hate is started with one group and just grows (ie Germany) .

[Lock him up.]

36. And she didn't notice he was attracted to beautiful and wanted to kiss them without their consent...

... and could do anything "grab 'em by the" genitals without their consent?

So she made the construction around his lie of "locker-room talk" to believe it was true??

[bdamomma]

24. New Yorkers

knew his MO for a long time.

[happybird]

7. Sounds like Death Eaters after the first war

“I was under the Imperious Curse!”

Sure ya were, buddy.

[Dan]

32. Except as someone else said....

The rats didn’t help drive the ship into the iceberg....

So, gotta give respect to the Rats.... these people are something else.

[Nevilledog]

35. +100000

[meadowlander]

4. Off topic but Jake Tapper looks 15 years older in that thumbnail.

Has he had Covid?

[chowder66]

10. I think most of us look 15 years old after these 4 very long years. : (

[marked50]

8. The thing that strikes me as super-suspect with the "Protecting Freedom meme" of Trumpville is;

why would they always, esp Drumpf, insist on these Non-Disclosure Agreements or even those "Waiver of Suing rights" What kind of "Freedom" is that. I suppose Freedom to be an idiot or dupe.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Well, gosh. I wonder why you never turned off the Fox channel during those eight years?

Or exercised just a smidgen of critical thinking?

[ace3csusm]

13. ....

[Beartracks]

15. Like Limbaugh used to say (maybe still does): "Folks, I've figured this out SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO."

[Sherman A1]

27. Well, there is that

but that would require some work as opposed to having your information spoon fed to you.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Did a research paper on cults and brainwashing. You can't be brainwashed permanently.

.

Once you leave the sphere of control, you eventually start to deprogram.

The problem is, between the area people live, their church communities, their family and friends, it's often difficult to escape without severing a lot of ties. Not many are willing or can do that.

.

[grumpyduck]

14. Brainwashing is an appropriate term here.

[Jeebo]

16. Oh, come on y'all, give her the benefit of the doubt.

I'm sure that she isn't going to vote for President Orange Con Man this time, and right now, that's what counts.

-- Ron

[Blue Owl]

17. K&R

[gordianot]

18. Build your resume you will need it.

Never take responsibility when you can scapegoat they made you do it. Note to next employer hire this woman at your own risk.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Sorry it takes a weak personality to be brainwashed by Trumpian lies

And I just suspect these people are none too bright to begin with

[OneGrassRoot]

20. Call me callous or heartless...

but I'm so over the "brainwashed" excuse, be it for right-wingers who have watched Fox and OAN and listened to Limbaugh and such for years, or the QAnon bunch now.

I do understand there is influence and propaganda is powerful, but there is something in certain people that made them susceptible to these hate-based cults. A lot of us were exposed to the same information but didn't dive in headlong and believe it.

I do believe in offering second chances and paths to redemption, but I won't let people slide with the brainwashed excuse. They need to accept responsible and maybe do some work to examine WHY they were susceptible. What bias and prejudice did they have to make people suddenly believe all Democrats are Satanic pedophiles or enablers of the same. Not to mention seeing Trump as the savior.

Oy fuckin' vey.

[ffr]

21. If just one person spoke this badly of a democrat, that democrats political career would be over

Democratic voters need to harden up and remember the atrocities this WH/GOP congress has taken liberty with. We have a lot of work putting this country back together.

[rockfordfile]

22. Hahahahahaha sure lol

[Lonestarblue]

25. Conservative media andnhate radio are destroying the country.

Given our First Amendment, I don’t know that they can be shut down, but two things that Dems could do are to reinstate the fairness doctrine and reinstate the policies on how many media outlets a corporation can own. Sinclair needs to be targeted for its propaganda.

[Solly Mack]

26. OK

[C Moon]

28. I think some of these people are just trying to clean up their resume--they'd sell their own mothers

Don't put any of these people in your administration, VP Joe.

[Mr. Ected]

29. Most of the people I work and live with are just like her, only unreformed

They have been listening to propaganda for a long, long time. Part of the propaganda is calling everything that comes from Democrats "propaganda", in order to confuse the dupe. They tell them not to listen to it, it's bad, it's lies, it's socialism. So they don't. Meanwhile, they receive a distorted telling of the truth, a truth replete with omissions and exaggerations that only perpetuates their desire to hate Democrats all the more. Round and round they go, living in a veritable echo chamber of family, church, and work associates. They have effectively sealed themselves off from being told the truth, and they're comfortable there. A few may wander from the pack, but the human mind is a complicated thing, and theirs have been egregiously fucked with.

[JT45242]

31. Reminds me of harry potter...

We never could tell who was really under the Imperius Curse and who was just claiming it to avoid a trip to Azkaban...

[Evolve Dammit]

33. "Eunice, wake up and smell the (f'ing; my insert) coffee". A salute to Carol Burnett.

[warmfeet]

34. Interesting.

Idiot 45 taught me to loath, hate, detest and despise all republicans.

I never liked them much, but I never wanted to kill all of them until the orange golfin mcfuckstick showed up.

I did not need any media to alter my opinion.

[Hulk]

37. Well....doh

Have you watched the three headed Satan every evening.?.....carlson/ingrahm/vannity ??

It is their unstated goal. The mango Mussolini only echoes their nightly preachings.

[JI7]

38. Hard time believing this.

[NBachers]

39. "Tell me, Ms. Denson, if Trump and the Republicans were winning by a landslide, would you still be

here atoning for your sins?"