CNN’s Dana Bash on the ‘Struggle’ of Covering Trump’s Truth Social Threats: We Know ‘Exactly What He’s Doing’

Former President Donald Trump spent Sunday ranting in several posts on his own social media platform, airing his various grievances with media figures and judges. CNN’s Dana Bash took a moment during Inside Politics on Monday to get “candid” about the reasons why she and other journalists feel compelled to cover Trump’s rants, calling it a “struggle.”

Bash led the show with Trump’s latest Truth Social post, an all-caps Easter Sunday “greeting” that went after “THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA.” After welcoming members of the panel — PBS NewsHour’s Laura Barrón-López, Axios’ Margaret Talev, and Washington Post‘s Aaron Blake — Bash introduced the conversation with a stark characterization of Trump’s barrage of posts:

So let me just give you, a sense of what was happening on his social media platform. And what was happening was a lot, a lot of things was happening. We’re not going to call, and explain all the specifics of the post, but we can just show you that there were many, many of them, dozens and dozens of the, I don’t know what you call them, “truths”? He was posting, reposting other people’s, sometimes rants, sometimes just plain old, comments. And that’s one part of the discussion.

The other is what we were talking about with [CNN’s Alayna Treene]. And that is, just to be totally candid, it’s kind of the struggle that we all have right now as reporters and knowing exactly what Trump is doing, knowing why he’s doing it. And yet, from my point of view, feeling that it is really, critically important to continue to show as much as we can of what he is doing because it matters. It has consequences, things that he says have consequences, and we know that all too well.

Watch the video above via CNN.