CNN panel gangs up on Rick Santorum for claiming to be a 'moral leader' while excusing Trump's porn star coverup
On Thursday, CNN's Anderson Cooper's panel went off the rails at President Donald Trump defender Rick Santorum, after he claimed that the president's affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels was not a big issue.
CNN contributor Jeffery Toobin slammed Santorum for calling Trump's scandal with Daniels non-problematic.
"Putting aside the whole issue of how amazing it is to listen to Rick Santorum who made his entire career, successful for a time, on the basis of morality in politics making excuses for paying off porn stars and women with whom [Trump] had affairs with," Toobin said.
"You say his problem is he keeps lying and his explanations about it. Isn't the reason he's lying is that he did something bad in the first place? If he did nothing wrong, why doesn't he tell the truth?" Toobin said.
CNN political analyst Kristen Powers also called out Santorum.
"You're basically saying he didn't commit a crime except for the crime that he committed. You know? It's like that's the whole point. It's not about whether it was the contribution. It's about the conspiracy basically to hide it," she said.
Santorum defended himself by saying, "It's not what he did was wrong, it's what he didn't report that was wrong."
Watch the rest of the panel explode on Santorum below via CNN.
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