CNN Morning Crew Pounds Ex-Trump Official Trying To Spin Trump Riot: ‘A Mob Chanting To Kill!’

Former Trump spokesman Marc Lotter got pounded on CNN for trying to spin former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 riot as equivalent to other times when election results were questioned.

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) drew attention Wednesday when he resurrected the lie that Trump really won the 2020 election because “Big Tech rigged” it to award President Joe Biden the presidency.

On Thursday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, anchor Kasie Hunt’s panel derailed when Lotter tried to claim that Trump’s 2020 denialism was “not a new phenomenon” — and the rest of the crew let him have it:

HUNT: How dangerous — dangerous is it for the country for Vance, now the number two, to be saying that? And what lesson should Vance have learned from Mike Pence’s experience?

MARC LOTTER: Well, look, this is not a new phenomenon. There are Democrats who still think the Supreme Court stole the election from Al Gore. There are still Democrats who think Russia influence the 2016 election. We — and, by the way, it is a fact, George Bush won, based on the Electoral College. Donald Trump won based on the Electoral College. And so when you see him saying —

HUNT: Yes, but there was no violence, you know, when Bill Clinton left the White House and — and Al Gore conceded and –

LOTTER: Well, that is — that is a — that is a — that’s different. And I — and I have long condemned anyone who crossed that – that police line and gone into the Capitol. You violated the law. If you were at The Ellipse, you were practicing your First Amendment right. If you crossed into the Capitol, you violated the law.

But what we’ve got to do is stop on both sides. It’s been happening now for 24 years where the losing side is going to claim that something was rigged with the election. 2004, they challenged Ohio. I mean all — we’ve got to stop it.

MEGHAN HAYS: Challenging the election and the Democratic Party challenging the election is very, very different than the leader of their party challenging the election and blatantly lying and saying it’s been rigged and that he won and continue —

LOTTER: Hillary Clinton still believes it was stolen. Al Gore thinks the Supreme Court stole it.

HAYS: I don’t — I don’t agree with you. I — they’re not out there saying that.

LOTTER: I mean they all say — they said George Bush was an illegitimate president. Hillary Clinton, to this day, says that — that Donald Trump was. That —

HUNT: Marc, no one is arguing —

HAYS: No.

HUNT: That Donald Trump did not have a right to the court system in the wake of the election, or that any of the candidates that you name had a right to the court system. If they have concerns about whether or not something was fairly counted or evaluated, there are ways to deal with that in our system.

But the fact is that Trump did all of that in this period between the November election in 2020 and what we were playing on January 6, 2021. He lost them all. And then that’s what happened.

LOTTER: Well, again, I — I condemn the — the — the riot at — at — on January 6th at the Capitol. But it’s fake news to say that we — there’s — I’ve seen it, there’s endless amount of clips of Hillary Clinton leading Democrats, Donald — Al Gore saying, the duly elected President of the United States, months, years after the inauguration, were illegitimate. They were – they were fake presidents. It’s been well-documented. Even after all of the losses, even after all of the —

HUNT: They — they both did concede the election though. Continue.

HAYS: But —

ALEX THOMPSON, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: I was just going to say, let’s — let’s be honest. There’s a difference between those things and also siccing and riling up a mob to attack the Capitol on the day of certification, right? It was just different.

HAYS: And not showing up to the inauguration and not actually having a peaceful transfer of government. But — but I — I — but to the point of this election, I think that people see this. And when JD Vance earlier — you played the clip earlier where he said people — or we are the party of common sense or people who have common sense are going to vote for us, I don’t see how he’s showing common sense and he is appealing to those people saying that — that they lost or that they won the election. I just don’t see the — the correlation there.

LOTTER: Well, the —

HUNT: I mean, Marc, Donald Trump tweeted on January 6th at 2:24 p.m., quote, “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done,” end quote. It was read over a loudspeaker. And the crowd chanted, “hang Mike Pence.”

There’s no other leader in the United States of America that has gotten us to the point where there’s a mob chanting to kill someone of the same party. One of like — Mike Pence is one of the most conservative leaders this country’s ever seen, right?

And, you know I covered him for decades and I think anyone that has worked with him would consider him to be an upstanding person, right? I mean we can agree on that.

The comparison doesn’t — it just doesn’t hold up.

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