Several members of a CNN panel tried to get a MAGA pundit to stop her "embarrassing" rant.
Former Trump White House staffer Caroline Sunshine took part in the panel, hosted by CNN anchor Abby Phillip. Most of the panel turned on Sunshine, however, when she started to defend the Trump administration from accusations of racism because it started accepting South African refugees while turning down refugees from other African nations.
"The United States has had an extremely generous refugee policy in regards to several African nations," Sunshine argued. "Now that South Africa is one of them, there's a problem. When was the problem when we were taking in millions from every other destabilized country?"
"You're being very obtuse, and it's embarrassing," shot back political commentator Leah McGowan.
Pollster and political strategist Josh Doss agreed, saying, "This is very deliberately obtuse."
Sunshine, whose jaw dropped, interrupted Doss to ask, "Can someone explain the Expropriation Act?" She was referring to a law that Trump condemned for supposedly taking land from White farmers when he gave South Africans refugee status.
"Stop," McGowan said. "Please stop."
Phillip then stepped in to fact-check Sunshine.
"What you're saying, that expropriation act, no property has been expropriated," Phillip said. "You know that, right?"
"No!" Sunshine responded. "That's not true."
"It is true," Phillip said. "No property has actually been expropriated, so you're talking about something that is basically hypothetical."
After speaking about apartheid in South Africa, Phillip then turned her attention to the Trump administration's plan to send Haitians who are losing temporary protected status back to Haiti.
"Meanwhile, we're saying to Americans, 'Don't go to Haiti because you might die,' but we want to send 350,000 asylum seekers essentially back to Haiti because Stephen Miller doesn't like them," Phillip said.
