Trump Ally Rages Over ‘Nazi’ Claims on CNN, Instantly Hit with Brutal Fact: ‘Even His Own VP Said It’

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Trump ally Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), who served as a cabinet secretary during Trump’s first term, faced sharp criticism after claiming, without evidence, that an unnamed news outlet had labeled President Donald Trump a Nazi “three thousand times.”

Trump’s former Attorney General Pam Bondi has also drawn criticism for threatening legal action over what she called “hate speech,” including remarks celebrating activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.


On Wednesday morning, CNN This Morning host Cornish discussed the topic with the “Group Chat” panel. The group included journalist Garrett Graff, former GOP lawmaker Charlie Dent, and Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright.

When Zinke made his claim, Seawright highlighted that even high-profile members of Trump’s administration have openly compared him to a Nazi.

CORNISH: “So, the Fox News analyst Brit Hume said ‘hate speech is protected,’ and, quote, ‘she should know this. The National Review, the Supreme Court will side against her nine-nothing.’ And people talked about Kirk dying over this issue of free speech. Where do you sit on this spectrum of Republicans who are like, we got to do something, and that might mean using the state law enforcement to go after people on language and people who say that is completely wrong?”

ZINKE: “This is where I sit. There’s a difference between expression and hate. There is a difference between a threat, a violent threat. For instance, if I threaten to kill you, and I project that —”

CORNISH: “But this has been litigated for a long time, right, this conversation?”

ZINKE: “Yes. And there are lines. And I agree with Pam Bondi. There are results of ignoring, for instance, a news outlet calling President Trump 3,000 times a Nazi. Three thousand times. Well, he’s not a Nazi. You may call him a lot of things, braggadocious, for example, but he’s not a Nazi.”

CORNISH: “Is that incitement?”

ZINKE: “You know what, I think that’s flaming a conflict. You are causing a rift where there isn’t one and falsely accusing someone of being a Nazi.”

CORNISH: “But incitement has legal —”

DENT: (INAUDIBLE)

CORNISH: “Yes.”

SEAWRIGHT: “And to a degree. Congressman, his own vice —”

ZINKE: (INAUDIBLE) “stoop it.”

SEAWRIGHT: “His own vice president called him a Nazi. So, we can’t pick —”

ZINKE: “Oh, oh, come on.” (INAUDIBLE)

SEAWRIGHT: “We can’t pick and choose when it’s convenient. Can I share something from Charlie Kirk? ‘Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And all of it is protected by the First Amendment.’ We are debating convenient speech versus free speech, and that is frustrating for people like me. It’s good for some but not for others, including the president.”

According to the Internet Archive, no television news outlet has ever paired the words “Trump” and “Nazi” together more than 3,000 times since 2009. No outlet has actually “called him a Nazi” that many times.

During that period, MSNBC and Fox News are nearly tied, with 1,740 and 1,736 mentions respectively. CNN comes in third with 1,366 mentions.


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