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Tapper yanks the rug out from GOP lawmaker in painful live shakedown

alternet.org · 3hShare

CNN anchor Jake Tapper cut through packaged talking points spouted by U.S. Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) in a brutal Thursday interview . Tapper began the discussion with a request for Flood’s reaction to President Donald Trump’s dismal poll numbers and the apparent affect his unpopularity was having on individual GOP races up and down the ballot. To this, Flood launched into the passage of the Housing Affordability law, which he claimed increased building and construction hiring in his state. Flood was slipping into claims that his Nebraskan steel mill “couldn't be busier” when Tapper cut him off with a fact check. “Well, I mean, polls indicate that … voters overwhelmingly do not agree with your assessment of the economy. And I will note that that Housing Bill that you helped write to help people afford homes, President Trump didn't sign it. It became law without his signature ,” Tapper said, momentarily throwing the lawmaker. Trump had instead taken the bill hostage in an effort to muscle

First report: 'Backed into a corner': Republican stunned by Tapper’s pointed Trump question — alternet.org, 2d