Don Lemon, Former Trump Adviser Go At It Over FBI’s Cohen Raid: ‘This Is a Sham Investigation!’
CNN’s Don Lemon had Ana Navarro, Charles Blow and Steve Cortes on his panel tonight for a discussion about the FBI’s raid on Michael Cohen‘s New York offices. It got contentious pretty fast.
Lemon and Cortes started things off by arguing over the correlation between the Stormy Daniels saga and Mueller’s investigation into Russia and the 2016 election. Cortes claimed that the probe is being led by “biased lawyers who hate the president,” and Lemon noted that the investigation is being led by Trump-appointed officials (including the New York district attorney who authorized the FBI’s warrant for Cohen’s offices).
“How did all of a sudden Robert Mueller, who is beloved by the right wing and Donald Trump and everyone, all of a sudden become a pariah because he’s doing his job,” Lemon wanted to know.
Cortes answered that Republicans are “complicit” in the Democrats’ “swamp tactics,” and Trump needs to clean house entirely.
“The president needs to fire Jeff Sessions. He needs to fire Rosenstein. He needs to fire Mueller. This is a sham investigation. This is his own Justice Department trying to usurp the power of the presidency.”
Lemon continued to ask why Trump would do that if he’s innocent, to which, Cortes responded by extending his diatribe about how the “witch hunt,” the media, and the Washington swamp are all out to impeach the president.
“That’s quite a tale you weave there,” Lemon dryly responded.
Navarro eventually mixed it up, making snarky comments about the “Trump apologist” on the panel while defending the FBI’s investigation into Cohen. When Lemon tried to let Blow get a word in, Cortes and Navarro ended up sparring as he tried to hit back at her stinging comments about the president.
Watch above, via CNN.
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