CNN’s Jake Tapper talks to Rolling Stone about Donald Trump, the media and politics, and his new series “United States of Scandal.'
has been covering politics for almost three decades. He’s had a front-row, insider’s view of the events that have defined the modern political era. He’s charted the victories and downfalls of our leaders and experienced the successes and failures of the news media in their mission to hold power to account. He knows a thing or two about political scandals.
I feel like when we cover scandals we’re covering the first draft, and the drips and drabs, and we’re never getting the whole story — not because of us, but because of them. We never know everything. But in any case, it’s weird to think about some of these scandals and how, if they happened today, there would be a built-in support mechanism for all of them, because of partisan alliances. There would be people attacking the reporters covering them — “How dare you go after Eliot Spitzer! How dare you go after John Edwards! How dare you go after Mark Sanford!” — because I think our media is even more divided and partisan than ever before. Who knows? Maybe it would be beyond social media.
Bill Clinton didn’t resign. Bill Clinton stayed and fought. I’m not saying they’re exactly the same, obviously, but there is a shamelessness to what Bill Clinton did, in staying and fighting. My son — who’s now 14 — I think a year or two ago studied the Clinton scandal for school. And he was just amazed over the Bill Clinton denial. The indignance of the man when he’s lying, the whole time, is remarkable.
Just the complete denial of the facts, and the fact that, at this point, he was going to be the nominee. And the fact that nobody really seemed to be bothered by this in a public way, except for the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. The Republican field was just lining up for him no matter what, as opposed to “Holy crap, what are we doing here?”
So I think there’s a part of the Trump defense that everybody does it, and they’re just going after me for it. I don’t think it’s true, but I think that there is an audience that is willing to hear it. And what Trump has that a lot of these other guys don’t have, or didn’t have, is this media industrial complex defending him. He has News Corp and Fox News echoing him in the most frantic ways.
The case for war ended up with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of innocent people being killed, and several thousand American soldiers being killed and seriously wounded. So it was incredibly important.
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