CNN’s Cuomo and Camerota Pummel Matt Schlapp For Hypocrisy of His WHCD Outrage in Insane Clash
CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp appeared on CNN to explain for his disdain for Michelle Wolf’s monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner — and received a marathon pummeling from New Day hosts Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota given President Donald Trump’s frequent offensive remarks about women.
The segment started off as an interview between Schlapp and Camerota, but derailed when Cuomo joined in to clash with Schlapp for his defenses of Trump for nearly 20 minutes.
Camerota took the reigns of the interview to start, grilling Schlapp on Trump’s remarks about Carly Fiorina’s physical appearance as well as his mocking of disabled reporter Serge Kovaleski.
And Schlapp, a millionaire Republican lobbyist who was so outraged by the “elites” of the White House Correspondents Dinner that he boasted on Twitter he departed early, started off defending the president’s jokes.
Schlapp argued that he isn’t sure whether Trump was mocking the reporter’s disability, and claimed that his main problem with Wolf’s routine were her jokes mocking abortion.
After Camerota wrapped up her interview, she turned to an unsatisfied Cuomo, who remarked “you’ve got to be kidding me.”
Cuomo then embarked on a tear against Schlapp for his “obvious hypocrisy” over his outrage in response to a comedian and defense of Trump, to the extent that Camerota decided to bring Schlapp back in to respond.
“You can’t give the president the benefit of the doubt on everything, [as if] you don’t know what he meant to do when he made that mannerism,” Cuomo said. “Please! If it were your kid or your wife you would probably change party stripes over it!”
At one point, the interview got bitter, when Schlapp defended his openness to bipartisanship by noting that he comes on New Day. To that, Cuomo quipped that Schlapp appears on the show “because you want the platform and we reward you for that.”
“That’s a very mean thing to say,” Schlapp replied. He then argued that CPAC, the conservative political conference, is welcoming to those who are not conservatives, to which Cuomo scoffed.
“You had people up on stage, mocking me openly, as if I’m some kind of enemy,” Cuomo said. “You never came on and apologized to me.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Shclapp replied.
“You know damn well what I’m talking about,” Cuomo fired back.
Watch above, via CNN.
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