CNN Slams "Jailing Political Opponents"

CNN Article

In an October 10, 2016 article titled, "Trump threatened to jail Clinton if elected. These countries might do the same," CNN journalist Joshua Berlinger slammed the idea of "jailing political opponents."

CNN’s Dana Bash is quoted as saying:

Not to sound too corny, but what makes this country different from countries with dictators in Africa or Stalin or Hitler or any of those countries with dictators and totalitarian leaders is when they took over, they put their opponents in jail. To hear one presidential candidate – even if it was a flip comment, which it was – say you’re going to be in jail to another president on the debate stage in the United States of America. Stunning. Just stunning.

According to Berlinger, "many Americans believe jailing political opponents, or threatening to, is the hallmark of a dictatorship, not a vibrant democracy."