CNN anchor Jake Tapper showed his partisanship Tuesday during his network’s coverage leading up to the announcement of the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
“If you talk about the defense and what they did, and the defense did what the defense attorneys do, they try to change the subject … throw as much at the wall and see what sticks,” Tapper said during an exchange with colleague Don Lemon. “All he needed to do, the defense attorney — who by the way misled the jury and was reprimanded by the judge, or at least corrected by the judge for misleading the jury in terms of what was required in terms of cause of death — but all that the defense attorney needed to do is to convince one person, because you need unanimity on the jury.
“My point is there is no hung jury,” Tapper continued. “It’s unanimous within ten hours, you know? So that strategy, if that in fact was the strategy, [of] ‘All I need to do is convince one person with this,’ and yes,…