Glenn Youngkin Tried To Sanewash Donald Trump And A Stunned Jake Tapper Wasn’t Having It
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“You can wish that he weren’t saying that, but that’s what he said," the CNN anchor told Virginia's Republican governor.
CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday repeatedly called out Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to his face for trying to spin former president and current GOP nominee Donald Trump’s latest divisive rhetoric.
Tapper asked Youngkin if he supported Trump’s comments about using the military against American citizens and people who he described as “radical left lunatics.”
Youngkin repeatedly tried to claim Trump was referring to undocumented migrants. Tapper, though, pushed back multiple times, noting how Trump had actually named one of the so-called “lunatics” as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
“I’m just reading you his quote,” Tapper told Youngkin.
Youngkin claimed Tapper was “misinterpreting and misrepresenting his thoughts.”