CNN continued to embody its Jeffrey Zucker-led moniker of being an ethics-free, fear-mongering, and liberal-heavy network as The Situation Room and host Wolf Blitzer again attempted to make viewers feel bad for CNN contributor Andrew McCabe, the former acting FBI director (who’s under criminal investigation).

Why? Because hours earlier, McCabe was again “a prominent target of” President Trump’s “anger.”

So here was CNN again trying to make the world feel bad for a guy who, among other things (such as leaking to the media), was fired from the FBI in 2018 after it was discovered he lied to the FBI inspector general at least four times. For shame.

Blitzer welcomed McCabe with a softball, open-ended question following a clip of the President thanking the Justice Department for intervening in the Roger Stone case: “What is your analysis? What’s your assessment? Your reaction when you hear that from the President?”

McCabe bemoaned Trump was “once again...committing transgressions in — out in plain sight” and, while speaking nothing to his own sullied reputation, kvetched how “it’s hard to explain how what a departure this is from every reasonable standard of how to conduct prosecutions and investigations in a rule of law society in which all people are treated the same.”

Blitzer continued, treating McCabe like some rational, squeaky-clean expert (click “expand”):

BLITZER: Have you seen anything like — you spent how many years in the FBI? MCCABE: 21 years. BLITZER: Alright, 21 years in the FBI. Have you seen a president attack a federal judge, for example, or go after prosecutors — federal prosecutors along these lines? MCCABE: Not only have I never seen it, the one time that I can remember President Obama, you may recall, made an offhanded pertinent remark during your investigation of the Hillary Clinton e-mail situation in which he opined that we were unlikely to find much, and that simple statement rocked us to the core. I can tell you that we were incredibly concerned about, you know, asking ourselves, what does that mean? Does the president mean to tell us what his intent was for the investigation? Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. President Obama didn’t interfere with our investigation in any way. But just that simple mention put us on edge. Now, we live in a world under this President where those sorts of things happen very directly and overtly every day.

The unserious interview dragged on with Blitzer fretting in a previewing another Trump clip that

“the President attacked you personally, not the first time, again today.”

The unserious interview dragged on with Blitzer fretting in a previewing another Trump clip that “the President attacked you personally, not the first time, again today.”

After playing the clip of Trump noting how “nothing happened” to “all the people that...launched this scam” like James Comey and McCabe, the longtime CNNer addressed McCabe like he had just been assaulted: “So, when you hear that from the President of the United States, what goes through your mind?”

Someone get Wolf a fainting couch!

McCabe immediately responded like a true Deep State hack that “it’s disgusting and shocking” and “[a]s many times as it happens, you never really get over that, but I think it’s important to take it out of the context of just me, and here again, we have a President casting aspersions of people who have never been charged with a crime, myself, Jim Comey, anyone else from that group that we worked with at the FBI.”

“He routinely refers to people as corrupt or having committing crimes when that could not be further from the truth and again, Wolf, I think he does this because he’s trying to plant that thought in people's minds. If he says it enough times, he thinks people will believe it,” he added without pushback or a statement of irony from Blitzer.

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on February 12, click “expand.”