A former official in President Donald Trump's first administration lost it during a panel discussion on CNN's "NewsNight" after a Democratic analyst raised Trump's threat to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling places for the midterm elections.
Ken Cuccinelli, Trump's former acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, lost his cool as Democratic analyst Adam Mockler questioned his argument that Trump is just "pulling your chain" by threatening to send ICE to polling places. Cuccinelli said that it has been illegal since the Reconstruction Era for federal agents to show up at polling places with weapons.
As Cuccinelli and Mockler attempted to talk over one another, the crosstalk became too much for Cuccinelli to bear.
"I've been being polite to youall day, and I'm done with it!" Cuccinelli said, "This is the same kind of attack on sensitive spaces that was made, and Tom Homananswered it quite well earlierthis week. Going into schools,hospitals, et cetera. Hecalled the bluff."
Mockler noted that the Trump administration has already "skirted" several court orders this year.
"Just because I point out that Trumphas already tried to overturn anelection doesn't mean that youcan go on some random tangent," Mockler shot back.
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