GOP Analyst Tells Angela Rye Trump Impeachment Talk as ‘Crazy and Over the Top’ as Birtherism
CNN analyst Angela Rye sparred with former New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino about President Donald Trump’s recent comments, in which he called Democrats “treasonous” because they didn’t stand and applaud during his State of the Union address.
Rye started by suggesting that Trump was, essentially, singling out the Congressional Black Caucus instead of all Democrats with his remarks.
“He is saying that people would rather see Donald Trump lose than Americans win,” she said.
“I think what you were really seeing and hearing are people who know the truth, and the truth is that economic indicators are lagging and then he can’t take credit for something that is squarely an achievement of President Barack Hussein Obama. That was the reason he didn’t get the applause that he so desperately needs to feed his ego.”
Astorino did say that Democrats are not treasonous and “that kind of rhetoric is just crazy,” but did take umbrage with Democrats looking at one another during the speech and asking one another if they could “clap here,” suggesting they have a “specific hate for Donald Trump, the person.”
Rye asked Astorino if he remembered why Democrats might choose to protest the State of the Union address, to which he asked if it even mattered.
“It matters for all of those people who are brown who were called drug dealers and rapists,” Rye said, to which Astorino oddly responded “He did not say all.”
“When you build a campaign based on hate-filled rhetoric, built on bigotry, discrimination and racism, I’m not going to applaud you,” she continued. “People who look like me aren’t going to applaud you and people who have heart all across this country, who don’t look me, aren’t going to applaud you.”
The conversation segued to Democrats, led by Rep. Maxine Waters, calling for the president to be impeached.
“Angela, I would say, that’s as crazy and over the top, impeachment now, as Obama not being born in the United States,” Astorino said, going on to suggest “race relations were at their worst under President Obama.”
Watch above, via CNN.
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