‘Whoa!’ CNN Anchor Stunned By Dead-Eyed Trump Fan Threatening Donie O’Sullivan To His Face
CNN anchor Jessica Dean was stunned by a dead-eyed MAGA conspiracist threatening senior CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan to his face as he conducted interviews for a new report on extremism.
O’Sullivan interviewed MAGA activist Ivan Raiklin for the latest edition of CNN’s The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, which he previewed for Dean on Friday.
Raiklin’s menacing promise to “ruin” O’Sullivan if he deems it fitting spooked Dean, but O’Sullivan quipped, “I always get to hang out with some of the nicest people.” Their exchange is below:
DEAN: The godfather of 3-D printed guns, pardoned January 6th rioters, and a Luigi Mangione fan club. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan speaking with all of them, and more, in the latest episode of “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.” Here’s a preview.
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O’SULLIVAN: You mentioned Pelosi. What do you think she would be charged with in this scenario?
RAIKLIN: It’s simple statute. This is treason.
O’SULLIVAN: Treason?
RAIKLIN: Yes, absolutely. And I would like to see at the end of the due process, lawful capital punishment.
O’SULLIVAN: Will you be disappointed if in 12 months from now, somebody hasn’t been executed for treason?
RAIKLIN: I think the nation will be furious.
O’SULLIVAN (voice-over): He says even I could be a target.
RAIKLIN: I’m not sure yet if you are or are not on the deep state target list, because I haven’t consumed all of the information that you’ve put forth to determine what your status should be.
O’SULLIVAN: Well, we’ve been hanging —
RAIKLIN: As we ruin you.
O’SULLIVAN: As you what?
RAIKLIN: Just like you ruined us. An eye for an eye. Look up Leviticus as a Christian man.
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DEAN: Whoa! Donie, you’re here now with us. What more can we expect in this new installment of your reporting? Because that’s – that is scary.
O’SULLIVAN: I always get to hang out with some of the nicest people, as you know, Jess. This special is coming on the 30 year anniversary this month of the Oklahoma City bombing, of course, which was, by Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma back in 1995.
And really what we’re looking at is how, over the past 30 years, true, how the revolution in technology and social media and also how we consume and share information, how really much more easier it is to be radicalized in America today than it was 30 years ago. You know, McVeigh was inspired in part by a racist, an anti-Semitic novel, “The Turner Diaries,” which was quite difficult at the time to – to get your hands on a copy of that. But now, obviously, through social media, we know a lot of people, particularly young men, are getting all the sentiments that is in a piece of racist novel like that, but served to them every day, algorithmically, through their social media feeds.
And, of course, also looking at how plans for, you know, fatal weapons, such as 3-D printed guns, are now also available online. So, you can go download the plans for a gun and literally print these things at home.
DEAN: Oh, that is so disturbing. And you make such a good point, it comes right to their feed and it probably, in their mind, feels so organic to them, like they’re finding it for themselves. That sort of thing.
Watch above via CNN’s The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.
