CNN’s Jake Tapper Rips Into Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort For Lying About The Media [VIDEO]

Raw Story recaps:

CNN host Jake Tapper called out Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort on Sunday for making false attacks on the media to distract from his candidate’s recent gaffes.

On Sunday’s State of the Union program, Tapper noted that GOP nominee Donald Trump had blamed the media for creating a controversy over his “Second Amendment people” remark that many had taken as a call to assassinate his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

“Here’s the thing, it wasn’t just reporters,” Tapper said. “It was Republicans, it was people in Washington, D.C. who want Mr. Trump to win.”

“The point is most people did not interpret it that way,” Manafort insisted. “It was not at all meant to be a threat. But the point again is you could have covered what he was saying or you could try and take an aside and take the Clinton narrative and play it out. You chose to do that instead.”

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Tapper pointed out that Trump was the one who took his message off the rails with that message people interpreted to be a violent warning. Manafort complained to Tapper that he could have been covering pay-for-play allegations surrounding Clinton.

In response, Tapper said he has covered that, and he even told Manafort, “These things, just because you say them, they’re not true! We have been covering the substance!”

Manafort insisted the media’s distracting away from the message. Tapper asked, “And Mr. Trump bears no responsibility for his campaign being off-message?”