A Donald Trump surrogate got emotional Wednesday evening while defending the Republican presidential frontrunner and shouted at a commentator to “please stop!” as tensions boiled over.
Kayleigh McEnany, a frequent Trump-backing guest on CNN, locked horns with CNN commentator Tara Setmayer after McEnany suggested it was defamation for Setmayer to presume Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski guilty of manhandling a reporter.
The discussion quickly turned to Trump’s Wednesday remarks that should abortion be outlawed, “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who get abortions. Trump later recanted his remarks, saying in a statement that abortion providers would be subject to punishment if abortion were outlawed.
“You aren’t concerned about Donald Trump when he says women should be punished for having abortions and changes his mind three times later after two hours when he got in trouble for it,” Setmayer said.
McEnany replied, “I haven’t been asked about that. So don’t put words in my mouth when I haven’t been asked about that subject.”
“You consistently defend the indefensible with Donald Trump and you’re doing it again today,” Setmayer replied.
“I’m just pointing out things that –” McEnany began.
Setmayer kept trying to speak over her until McEnany broke in to beg, “Tara, please stop!”
“Because you are putting words in my mouth,” she finished. Anderson Cooper tried to intervene to say the show was going to a break as McEnany appeared to get emotional.
“I’m tired of people putting words in my mouth, Tara,” she said.
McEnany continued: “I’m tired of you saying I said something about his abortion comments when I haven’t been asked about that. You need to stop generalizing about things I have not commented on. Please go check the record, someone fact check this.”
“Maybe you should,” Setmayer responded.
“We’re gonna take a breath,” Cooper said, going to a commercial.
Watch the full exchange captured by TPM:
h/t Mediaite
Gotta love spokescritters who go on TV and demand “fairness”.
So right Anderson, the illusion of fast-paced infotainment was making me lightheaded…
You know, it’s not defamation when the whole thing is caught on video.
Can’t watch the video, so I have no tone of voice or body language to go on, but it seems from the text that the talking head was doing one of those questions that isn’t really a question. It’s more of putting their opinion into something.
“You aren’t concerned about Donald Trump when he says women should be
punished for having abortions and changes his mind three times later
after two hours when he got in trouble for it,” Setmayer said.
By flipping the first two words from “Aren’t you” to “You aren’t”, it goes from asking a question to expressing your opinion. It might be just her style of speaking, though.
It’s important for the people who claim to be the rational alternative to Drumpf to not act like him.
Who are these plastic fantastic women and why does what they say matter? Tomorrow no one will remember their names