'Long list of lies!' Gobsmacked CNN anchor hits back at MAGA lawmaker's attack on Harris

CNN's Kate Bolduan confronted Trump campaign surrogate Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on Tuesday as he demanded that the Kamala Harris campaign tone down its criticisms of former President Donald Trump — while accepting zero responsibility for Trump's own role in inflaming political tensions around the country.

"In terms of rhetoric, do you think Donald Trump, that the Trump campaign — do you think they have a problem with rhetoric as well?" asked Bolduan.

"No, I don't," said Donalds. "I think especially in light of the fact that there has now been a second assassination attempt on the life of President Trump, I do not believe so."

He went on to claim there are "radical elements in the Democrat Party" driving the violence — despite the fact that the shooter appears to have been a former Trump supporter — and said by contrast, "What Donald Trump has been talking about is we're going to fix our borders, we're going to have a great economy again, we're going to get out of these conflicts, we're going to make America great again, that is his rhetoric."

He added that there was "no moral equivalency" with the "nastiness" from Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign.

Bolduan was visibly incredulous as he spoke.

"I think any serious person would also say, Congressman, that Donald Trump is a source of heated and dangerous rhetoric over months and years," she said. "I mean, even Republicans who support him and are voting for him this election have basically begged him to tone it down."

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She specifically referenced Trump and J.D. Vance's lies that Haitian migrants are eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio, adding, "You've got the mayor ... saying, you guys need to tone it down because we now have bomb threats on schools in our area."

"Nobody wants a bomb threat or anything like that," said Donalds, before immediately defending Trump and Vance's incitement of immigrant hatred, saying Vance is just "talking about things that his constituents have brought to him."

By contrast, he complained that Harris is going too far by mentioning that Trump said there would be a "bloodbath" if he isn't elected or that there were "very fine people on both sides" during the Charlottesville neo-Nazi demonstrations in 2017, asserting she "lied" about these things.

"You can talk about a long list of lies," shot back Bolduan. "We could walk through it. I don't think it is to the benefit of voters right now for me to walk through to remind them of the lies that Donald Trump has told in the past. Case in point, eating dogs and eating dog and pets, or lots of other things."

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