CNN's Dana Bash 'Can't Repeat' What GOP Lawmakers Are Texting Her About Matt Gaetz

[DonViejo]

04/03/2021 06:46 am ET Updated 50 minutes ago

“I actually can’t repeat what some of them say on morning television,” said the network’s chief political correspondent.

By Lee Moran

CNN’s chief political correspondent Dana Bash on Friday indicated how some Republicans are currently feeling toward embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).

“New Day” anchor John Avlon observed that Republicans are hardly rallying to defend the Donald Trump sycophant, who is under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old girl. Gaetz denies the allegations.

“If you could see my text messages from some of his current and former colleagues, I actually can’t repeat what some of them say on morning television,” claimed Bash.

“It’s because he has not made himself popular with most of his colleagues,” she continued. “Again, we’re talking about his fellow Republicans, John. We’re talking about people who he has antagonized in the name of being ... as beholden and as loyal to the former president, Donald Trump, as possible. In the name of being on conservative media, being on Fox News. Being the darling of that.”

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-dana-bash-gop-response_n_60683dc1c5b6832c79377670

[Dem4Life1102]

1. Sounds like Bash is covering for republicans again.

[True Blue American]

2. Reminds me.

Jim Acosta will be on today at 3 PM with his new Saturday show.

I enjoy both him and Dana.

[brewens]

3. Bullshit! His GOPedo peers are just pissed he got caught and is blowing it for the rest of

them.

[kentuck]

5. But, homey don't play that.

Someone that will take the blame for the rest of them. And all their sins have been washed away.

Yep! It's Easter! They need a scapegoat.

[Arazi]

4. She's covering and enabling Gaetz and the GOP

Report the fucking news. Cut out the coy shit. We know you crave the inner access but that's not what journalism is supposed to be about

[Maru Kitteh]

14. Oh please

[tanyev]

6. She may not be able to repeat it verbatim, but she could say more than that.

She's choosing not to.

[Mr. Ected]

7. Names and gist of what they're saying or you're part of the cover-up, Dana

We've endured this journalism-by-allusion for far too many years. More concerned about protecting her job than doing it.

[JI7]

8. What bs . Just like with Trump the media just accepts what Republicans say in private

which they don't want made public and that's good enough for the media to accept that Republicans aren't enabling the shit.

meanwhile they think the most important thing is what Nancy Pelosi thinks should happen with Andrew Cuomo . And asking every democrat about him.

[thucythucy]

9. And where have all these "profiles in courage" been these past four or more years?

What a bunch of creeps and cowards conservatives elect, time and again, to represent them.

[DanieRains]

10. I Was Going To Do A Post About What Gaetz And His Friend Did To A Child

But it may have triggered bad stuff for a reader.

So I won't.

[Hotler]

11. If it's okay to see the blood and violence of John Wick on TV we can take

what ever you got. It's cable and we're adults.

[BobTheSubgenius]

12. If what they are saying is so explosive and dangerous,

why are they saying it at all? They feel the need to absolve themselves in Dana Bash's eyes? What a crock.

[0rganism]

13. Illustrating the adage "Be nice to the people you pass on your way up..."

"...you'll be seeing them again on your way down"