CNN Hires Top Obama Aide's Daughter as Justice Dept. Correspondent As They Lay Into Trump
By Tim Graham | March 4, 2017 | 7:32 AM EST
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Now that CNN is in full High Dudgeon mode against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asking whether he can "last" in office, Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire reminds us that in the midst of Inauguration hoopla, CNN announced it had hired Laura Jarrett, the daughter of powerful Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, to be a correspondent at the Justice Department.
Valerie Jarrett wasn’t just President Obama’s top advisor. She’s also personally close to the Obamas to the extent that she’s reportedly moving in with them in their new Washington, D.C. digs. Jarrett called Trump’s election a “punch in the stomach…soul-crushing.”
Jarrett is a Harvard-educated lawyer, but has zero experience in journalism. (She has donated to Obama, twice.) It might look to some people like NBC News hiring Chelsea Clinton, except NBC put Chelsea on the Happy News beat, reporting on Paul McCartney's daughter being a vegetarian and interviewing the GEICO Gecko like that was news. That's different than hard-news coverage of a top Trump cabinet official doing ontroversial Trumpian things like enforcing the immigration laws.
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