GOP scalded over 'weird' selective outrage that 'tells you everything' about the party
CNN's Audie Cornish called out Vice President JD Vance and other Republicans for condoning right-wing influencer Laura Loomer's racist remarks while smearing left-wing commentators as antisemitic.
The Donald Trump ally drew widespread criticism for attacking Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon and other prominent Black U.S. politicians as "ghetto," and the "CNN This Morning" host asked why some Republicans were comfortable condemning Loomer's remarks but Vance and others had not.
"Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump, quote, 'owns' Loomer and her nonstop vitriol,writing, 'when will the presidentand the Republican Party rejecther and her hateful, racistbehaviors? They refuse, whichtells you everything you need toknow.'"
"I wanted to talk aboutthis because this story, as itwas breaking, Loomer alsotweeted, 'Hey, there wasn't anypress allowed into this Republican Jewish Coalitionmeeting, and Vance got me in,' andI was like, what?" Cornish added. "Like, I waschecking time stamps to be, like,I'm confused. This person whois saying the most racist thingsimaginable is going to go intothis meeting where Vance isgoing to be asked why he'splatforming online influencerswho spew hate."
Loomer claimed Monday night that she'd been offered a last-minute invitation from Vance to the off-the-record, closed-door event, and Cornish questioned her role and proximity to the administration.
"I'mgoing to put up a full screenhere of people that she claimsto have gotten fired," Cornish said. "Yeah, youknow what I mean? So I'm nottalking about a random onlineinfluencer. [She has ties to] the security apparatus – NSA, CIA. So why are they notdenouncing her? Where are the –there's this weird thing where Republicans want to be basicallymoral arbiters on the issue ofantisemitism."
Republicans have successfully turned popular left-wing streamer Hasan Piker into a political cudgel due to his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza, and Cornish asked why his statements should be an issue but Loomer's are not.
"Somehow this part, somehow racism is a card to beplayed and not to be takenseriously," she said. "How do you do both?How do you rush into the breachto tell Jews and the Democratic Party, we're here for you, butwe're not here for these otherpeople. We're going to callthem dogs."
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