CNN's Jake Tapper accuses Chauvin defense of 'misleading,' 'gaslighting' jury ahead of guilty verdict

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.

"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, defense attorneys gaslight, that's what they do. That's their job. This trial is not new in that sense -- prosecution in different cases, they gaslight too -- but my point is, that didn't work! It was unanimity! I think we all suspect what the verdict is going to be, we don't know, but we suspect what it's going to be because either it's an easy decision that Chauvin is not guilty or an easy decision that Chauvin is guilty, right?"  Tapper was fact-checked by the Washington Examiner's Eddie Scarry, who noted that not only was the anchor's assertion "FALSE" but that the judge "SIDED" with Chauvin defense attorney Eric Nelson.