Conservative political strategist Scott Jennings first began showing up on CNN as a contributor years ago.
As often as he makes quick work of liberal pundits, I’m surprised they keep bringing him back!
But apparently, those ratings matter… even if they fly in the face of that not-so-subtle Progressive agenda CNN likes to push.
So, Scott Jennings keeps getting a seat at the table for panel discussions on CNN — to the utter dismay of any Democrat attempting to go toe-to-toe against his quick wit and factual arguments.
He doesn’t hold back! And he certainly didn’t a few days ago.
Daniel Koh either had the lack of foresight or pure guts (I’m honestly not sure which) to attack the Trump Administration’s handling of what the Democrats are calling ‘Signal-gate’.
And then PRESUME to lecture conservatives about holding people ACCOUNTABLE in the Administration!
It helps to know that Daniel Koh was a top Biden adviser, the Deputy Assistant to the President, and also his Deputy Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
He was literally helping to steer the ship in the White House while Biden’s cognitive decline was peaking during the catastrophic Afghanistan withdraw.
And a few days ago he sat right in front of Scott Jennings, attacking conservatives, on the basis of NO ACCOUNTABILITY.
And that’s when he knew he’d — well… you know. He messed up.
I want to back up and give you a snippet of Koh’s comments which didn’t quite make the cut at the beginning of the clip I’m about to share, for a little context.
Here’s his lead-in argument, courtesy of CNN’s transcript database:
KOH: Look, I think that’s precisely right. The reality is if we as United States want to perceive ourselves to be the beacon of what western civilization should be, I think there’s a lot of reason to be very afraid of what we’re seeing right now, when we talked about the deportations, we talk about the lack of the respect of co-equal branches of government. People feel this, that it scares them. And when they see things like, the whole Signal gate last week, and no one has faced a single consequence, you want to talk about people checking out.
ADVERTISEMENTPeople have checked out because they say this is a president who doesn’t hinder any consequences on his people when they make a mistake. This is a Secretary of Defense who is not treating sensitive information of American soldiers at risk with the proper care that it deserves, and no one is facing consequences. That’s when people check out and realize that their democracy may not be what they thought it. (Emphasis added.)
“…and no one is facing consequences.” You don’t say!
Jennings wasn’t having any of it, and he let the former Biden official have both barrels of truth.
Here’s the clip that is currently under consideration as the MOST BRUTAL Scott Jennings takedown of all time:
“Did you recall a single person in your White House or in your Democratic Party asking for the resignation of Lloyd Austin after Afghanistan, after the drone strike that vaporized those kids, or after he went AWOL? Yes or No?”
Scott Jennings never misses. pic.twitter.com/fkc6004tZ0
— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) April 3, 2025
BOOM!
Thirteen American lives in a complete failure of leadership — that’s not putting American lives at risk? That’s not compromising American lives?
To be clear, Scott Jennings has been sweeping the floor with misplaced Democrat narratives for YEARS; long before President Trump’s November re-election. It’s not like Jennings suddenly grew a backbone as a result of the election.
My point is, these Democratic talking heads KNOW he’s likely to call them on their complete BS, and they STILL give him every chance to call them out!
I truly don’t understand it, but I’m here for it!
Just a few days before, Jennings chewed up virtually the SAME ARGUMENT with an entirely different panel on CNN!
This time, it was Lloyd Austin’s former Pentagon spokesman Chris Meagher who took up the same faulty argument.
Scott Jennings shared the exchange, and issued a cut-throat blanket dismissal of Democrat’s willingness to go the hypocritical route.
I’ll put the full screen video below for easier viewing:
Don’t have time for lectures from Dems who looked the other way on Lloyd Austin’s disastrous tenure at the Pentagon. If you didn’t call for his firing over Afghanistan, the disastrous drone strike, or his going AWOL, maybe take a seat on Hegseth. https://t.co/q58mp4sdem
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) March 30, 2025
Here’s the full screen video of that exchange:
Scott Jennings lays out the plain facts to Dems calling for firings over Signalgate —
JENNINGS: “The bar for firing people like this is really high from the last administration when after the Afghanistan withdrawal, which was a disaster, people died.”
“No accountability was… pic.twitter.com/eE5n3liLIk
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 30, 2025
I’m not the only one celebrating Jennings’ ability to repeatedly call out the Democrats for faulty logic.
TownHall’s Rebecca Downs has pointed out the same, along with making a really good point when it comes to the Democrats’ defense of Lloyd Austin during the Afghanistan failure.
It was, in fact, an utter failure! It cost American lives! It left America MORE VULNERABLE than it was before as a direct result of Lloyd Austin’s FAILURES!
Meanwhile… the military operation they want Pete Hegseth crucified for was an UNMITIGATED SUCCESS, as TownHall reported:
When it comes to Signalgate, Democrats and the mainstream media have talked the issue to death, giving CNN’s conservative commentator Scott Jennings plenty of opportunities to discuss the matter. A consistent theme from Jennings has been to remind the liberal commentators that he’s not going to take lectures on national security from those who supported or even worked for such a failing administration as the Biden-Harris one.
ADVERTISEMENTThe issue of Signlgate was discussed ad nauseam on the Sunday shows, including CNN’s “State of the Union,” where Jennings was part of the panel discussion. He even went up against the former spokesperson for the Pentagon, Chris Meagher, who criticized Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, despite the issues from his boss, then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
When it was Jennings’ turn to speak, he pointed to Signlgate as “a mistake” and “a teachable moment,” expressing his confidence that “I have no doubt they won’t do it again.” He also aptly went after the leftist narrative, though.
What Democrats tend to forget when focusing on the “small mistake involving communications” and scapegoating Hegseth is that the mission was a success. This is in strong contrast to the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the Houthis, with President Joe Biden even declassifying them as terrorists.
Not only were there no American casualties in the attack on the Houthi targets, but the mission achieved its objectives and destroyed the capacity of a state-sponsored terror group to strike out at America and our allies!
It also FINALLY brought a response to all the attacks on American troops from that very group during the Biden Administration, with Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense, that went completely unanswered!
Jennings isn’t stingy with his skillful technique, either. He shared this video several days ago as a masterclass in how to deal with hypocritical Democrat narratives:
When they say “if this happened under a Democrat…” here’s what you do. https://t.co/pXNAUGBt40
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) March 29, 2025
And surprise, surprise! Just a few days before THAT… Democrats tried EXACTLY the same non-accountability argument, with ANOTHER CNN panel!
Do these people not watch their own network? Do they not realize Scott Jennings is repeatedly destroying their ONLY talking point?
Here’s Jennings absolutely infuriating Neera Tanden, President & CEO of the Progressive Think Tank ‘Center for American Progress’, with his simple tactic of using logic:
NEW: CNN panel lectures America on military “accountability”…
…and then melts down when Scott Jennings points out that no one was held accountable for the disaster in Afghanistan or Biden’s open border.
NEERA TANDEN: “The military requires accountability. It’s the most… pic.twitter.com/jKZhU7fwEo
— The Vigilant Fox
(@VigilantFox) March 28, 2025
I love how he sticks to his guns when they claim he’s ‘excusing’ the mistake of the Signal Chat fiasco, and he calmly explains that he’s not excusing it — BUT THERE’S A DIFFERENCE!
The problem is not that there isn’t a difference; the problem is that Democrats who are defensive about their support of Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin and all the culprits who nearly DESTROYED this country… are unwilling to SEE that difference.
That’s cognitive dissonance 101. They literally can’t HANDLE their reality being so off base… and so their brain finds a way to not see that fact.
They’re often not lying. It is often more accurate to say they are self-deceived.
And thankfully, as long as there are self-deceived Democrats willing to spout that faulty logic on CNN panels night after night… the need for RATINGS will probably keep CNN paying Scott Jennings to keep coming back.
And he’ll keep making simple points that cause liberal heads to explode.
And we’ll bring you those stories… because they are GLORIOUS!
And because the truth needs to be told, sometimes over and over again, before some folks will finally ‘hear’ it.
Keep at it, Scott Jennings. We’re loving every minute of it!
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
Scott Jennings lays out the plain facts to Dems calling for firings over Signalgate —
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