‘Political Murder!’ CNN’s Abby Phillip Drags Trump and GOP In Brutal ‘Autopsy of Failure’ Commentary

CNN anchor Abby Phillip dragged former President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in an epic “Definitive Autopsy of Failure” dissecting the collapse of a Birder deal with President Joe Biden.

Trump and his adherents are waging an apparently-soon-to-succeed campaign against the bipartisan Senate immigration bill that includes massive concessions to conservatives and little in the way of Democratic priorities, and which has been endorsed by border patrol and CBP organizations.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip opened her show with an 8-minute segment devoted to unmasking the political “murderer” of the bill:

ABBY PHILLIP: The definitive autopsy of Washington’s latest failure to govern, that’s tonight on NewsNight.

Good evening. I’m Abby Phillip in New York.

And four months for years for the better part of a decade, the Republican Party has made the border issue number one. They demanded change, legislation, any kind of fix. And there is, in fact, a crisis on the border, whether Democrats want to admit it out loud or not, and new laws are needed to keep up with the influx of migrants.

The problem is, though, Republicans latched onto this issue for political reasons, and there’s proof of it. To explain how this border deal died the quickest of deaths, I’m going to use the inverted pyramid to help convey the who, the what, when, where and why Republicans ended up tanking the very type of legislation that they demanded.

First and foremost, the who, of course, Donald Trump. The where, Capitol Hill. The why and the when, and while Republicans will tell you that they’re rejecting this deal because it doesn’t go far enough, even though it’s the most conservative bipartisan immigration bill in recent history.

But that excuse is just a cover. The main reason that they don’t want this bill is because Donald Trump doesn’t want to give Joe Biden a legislative win during an election year. It’s that simple. Not only has Trump actually admitted this out loud, but so have his allies over on Capitol Hill.

Phillip wove several more minutes of commentary with clips of lawmakers to prove her point, and concluded with a canny analogy to the board game “Clue”:

PHILLIP: So, the autopsy shows that this wasn’t an honest policy disagreement, everyone working in good faith toward a solution. It was a red-blooded political murder! The clues are there, like in the game. It was Donald Trump over at Mar-a-Lago holding the bullhorn who ordered the hit.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.

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