On Monday night, Anderson Cooper ripped into Donald Trump Jr. for spreading a misleading photo of the CNN host in order to falsely claim that Cooper was trying to make a political statement against his father — President Donald Trump.
Political observers might’ve noticed recently that the president’s son not only mocked Brett Kavanaugh‘s sexual assault accuser, he also posted this picture of Cooper — suggesting he was kneeling in the floodwaters of Hurricane Florence to make his dad “look bad.”
There’s just one teensy little problem: that photo is completely out of context. That picture was taken when Cooper was doing coverage of Hurricane Ike 10 years ago.
Cooper, on Monday night, replied with fury:
“I’ve covered hurricanes for about 14 years and it really does make me sad to think that anyone would believe that I would try to fake something or overly-dramatize a disaster. I debated whether I should even respond to the president’s son. I know he believes himself to be an outdoorsman and pays a lot of money to be led to wildlife in Africa that he then kills, but I’m not sure if he’s ever actually been to a hurricane or flood. I didn’t see him down in North Carolina in the last few days helping out, lending a hand, but I’m sure he was busy doing something important besides just tweeting lies.”
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“Look, I don’t expect the president’s son to ever admit he was wrong, or one of the president’s former advisers or frankly anyone else who’s retweeted these pictures,” Cooper said. “But I at least thought that they and you should know the truth.”
Watch above, via CNN.
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