Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) in an appearance Wednesday on CNN criticized President Barack Obama’s comments on rape allegations against comedian Bill Cosby.
Huckabee said the President was “disingenuous” for not responding specifically to the Cosby allegations but instead commenting on definition of consent. The Republican presidential candidate said the admissions in the 2005 deposition was a “horrible, horrible thing.”
Obama cited potential civil or criminal litigation for his lack of specificity.
“Mr. President, you commented on Trayvon Martin, you commented on Ferguson, Missouri, you’ve commented on Baltimore, all before there were civil and/or criminal actions that were still pending. So it was so disingenuous for him to pretend that he doesn’t comment on these things when he’s commented on nearly every one of them that has surfaced on the public square,” Huckabee told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday.
Huckabee, if he was elected President, would also not revoke Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom because “[Cosby] hasn’t been adjudicated.”
Obama said there was “no mechanism” to revoke the honor.
