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MSM PUSHBACK: MSNBC host destroys Republican Senator in rare takedown

MSM PUSHBACK: MSNBC host destroys Republican Senator in rare takedown

MSM PUSHBACK: MSNBC host destroys Republican Senator in rare takedown

Believe it or not, MSNBC‘s Meet the Press host, Chuck Todd, held Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson‘s feet to the fire when talking about investigating President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, on the Sunday morning news program.

“It is not a crime to make money off your last name,” Todd told the conspiracy theory-spreading legislator.

The tense — and interesting — exchange showed the MSNBC host pushing back on the speculation and misinformation Johnson was selling.

Watch the video below. 

“Senator, do you have a crime that you think Hunter Biden committed?” Todd asked. “Because I’ve yet to see anybody explain.”

But the three-term Republican Senator was undeterred. Determined to get his talking point out, Johnson went into a diatribe about prostitution and sex trafficking.

“Chuck, is it a crime to be soliciting and purchasing prostitution in potentially European sex trafficking operations? Is that a crime? Because Chuck Grassley and I laid out about $30,000 paid by Hunter Biden paid to those types of individuals over December 2018-2019,” Johnson asked.

What?

Johnson is referring to the U.S. Senator from Iowa – 89-year-old Chuck Grassley – who was re-elected in 2020.

In a rare move, Chuck Todd didn’t softball questions to Sen. Johnson.

Instead, the middle-of-the-road Sunday news host refused to let his foot off the gas when pressing the lifelong Republican for direct answers.

Todd called Sen. Johnson out for focusing on the President’s son, Hunter Biden – who has never held a significant position in the federal government – rather than on a probe into ex-president Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who actually had a major role in the Trump administration.

“If you’re concerned about what Hunter Biden did, you should be equally outraged by what Jared Kushner did.

Not only did Kushner receive a financial Hail Mary for a residential building the New York slumlord and his family owned, but received $2 billion from the Saudi Arabian royal family just six months after his father-in-law was booted from the People’s House.

But instead of answering the questions Todd was asking, Johnson continued to deflect and project onto Hunter Biden. Accusing the host of only having him on to argue, Johnson was out of his talking point depth.

“You can go back on your partisan cable cocoon and talk about media bias all you want – I understand, it’s part of your identity,” Todd pushed back on claims on Johnson’s claims of media bias.

It appears that mainstream media has gotten the memo.

Watch the video here.

H/T @Aaron Rupar

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Ty Ross
News journalist for Occupy Democrats.

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