New York – Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says President-elect Donald Trump “lives and thrives in a fact-free environment.”
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Bernstein’s reporting with Bob Woodward at the Washington Post in the 1970s exposed the Watergate scandal and eventually led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
Bernstein said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday: “No president, including Richard Nixon, has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact as this president does.” He says, “It has something to do with the growing sense of authoritarianism he and his presidency are projecting.”
He cites as an example Trump using Twitter to slam an Indiana union leader over criticism of Trump’s deal with Carrier. Bernstein says Trump’s approach amounts to “bullying.”
Bernstein works as a CNN commentator.
The Trump camp didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Hey carl,
Its painful that Donald can talk straight to the people without you filtering, no?
Like the fact free media that prediced hillarys win. Get over yourself Carl your not relevent anymore.
Sorry I know its painful to loose.
One of Rockbrainres friends from Clinton News Network. As though facts exist for Muslim sympathizer Obama. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Cnn and Bernstein Go fly a kite
I saw the movie. This man dies not look like Carl Bernstein. Carl Bernstein looked like Dustin Hoffman.