Correspondent John Harwood abruptly leaves CNN after calling Trump a 'demagogue'

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Source: The Guardian

Correspondent abruptly leaves CNN after calling Trump a ‘demagogue’

John Harwood is out as the company’s new head signals shift away from liberal-leaning political coverage

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Fri 2 Sep 2022 21.54 BST

A White House correspondent for CNN – whose new leader wants the channel to adopt what he considers a more politically neutral voice to its coverage – has departed the network after calling Donald Trump “a dishonest demagogue” on the air.

John Harwood announced his exit from CNN on his Twitter account Friday, a day after he spoke favorably of a nationally televised speech by Joe Biden in which the president said that Republican forces loyal to his Oval Office predecessor, Trump, imperiled American democracy.

“The core point [Biden] made in that political speech about a threat to democracy is true,” Harwood said on CNN after the address, which was in primetime. “Now that is something that is not easy for us as journalists to say.”

“We’re brought up to believe there’s two different political parties with different points of view, and we don’t take sides in honest disagreements between them. But that’s not what we are talking about. These are honest disagreements. The Republican party right now is led by a dishonest demagogue.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/sep/02/john-harwood-cnn-correspondent-leaves-trump-demagogue

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