CNN’s Scott Jennings Draws Fire Defending Trump Spox’s Rant About Dem Voters: ‘Where Is The Lie?’

CNN GOP analyst Scott Jennings drew fire by defending Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying that Democratic voters “are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals,” asking “Where is the lie?”

On Thursday, Leavitt responded to a Fox News interview with Zohran Mamdani by accusing the Democratic base of being “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.”

She made the charge twice in the space of a minute.

Jennings defended the rant on Friday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, drawing objections from anchor Abby Phillip and analyst Ashley Allison:

PHILLIP: Andy Kim, the senator, compared Speaker Johnson’s comments about these protests to what was said about the March on Washington of 1963 by George Wallace. He said, segregationist George Wallace said about the march on Washington, I do think the march under the leadership of men who are in the Communist Party, and have been, is not good for the country citizens being used by communists to disrupt and destroy internal peace. That’s the comparison that he’s making.

JENNINGS: Well, look, I mean, if Democrats want to embrace having the Communist Party here in New York City sponsor this rally, you know, be my guest. Respectfully, and I hear what you’re saying, but where is the energy in the Democratic Party? You see energy around protecting illegal populations. You see it every day, energy in around criminals, violent criminals. I mean, Democratic officials all over this country have worked very hard to let violent criminals out on the streets. Where is the lie and what is being said by Karoline Leavitt? This is where the energy is on the left.

ALLISON: The energy —

JENNINGS: Violent illegal aliens, violent criminals, that’s the energy. That’s what you see.

ALLISON: The energy is behind protecting people’s rights. It’s behind not having citizens —

JENNINGS: Who’s?

ALLISON: — arrest — citizens, Americans.

JENNINGS: What about illegal aliens being around by us? ALLISON: Many Democrats have said, we got the immigration issue wrong and we need to fix it, perhaps maybe in Congress, but we know that won’t happen because they aren’t even working right now. But people are protesting Americans being zip tied, being detained without having their rights protected. I’m not saying that is not who is — that is not the Democratic Party saying that let all illegal people or criminals run free. That is not what the Democratic Party is saying.

JENNINGS: Those are the policies. Those are your — those are the —

ALLISON: No, they are not.

JENNINGS: I mean, you have prosecutors and judges all over this country that have let violent criminal after violent criminal out on the streets. And then what do they do? They commit other violent crimes.

PHILLIP: Scott, what does that have to do with people exercising their rights to protest? I just — I really want to understand. I mean, there are going to be millions of people probably out on the streets all over the country, and many of those people are, you know, your neighbors, perhaps some of your friends, they’re regular Americans that have constitutional rights, that have voting rights like everybody else. Why is it that that there is this idea that guilt by association should be applied to them when they just want to go out and protest against a political administration that they disagree with?

JENNINGS: I have no problem with people protesting peacefully. They have every right to do that. I do think it’s legitimate —

PHILLIP: Then why demonize them?

JENNINGS: Because I think it’s a legitimate political debate about what they’re protesting for.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.