‘Flat Out Lie!’ Rep. Byron Donalds and CNN’s Kate Bolduan Spar Over Allegations of Trump’s Inflammatory Political Rhetoric

GOP Rep. Byron Donalds and CNN’s Kate Boldouan mixed it up Tuesday over Democrats labeling former President Donald Trump as a “threat to democracy,” which Donalds called a lie.

In the days that have followed news of the FBI investigating an apparent second assassination attempt outside a Trump golf course on Sunday, there has been a raft of partisan recriminations and finger-pointing by one side of the other for irresponsible political rhetoric.

Following a polling segment in which Harry Enten revealed a diminishing number of undecided voters, Bolduan asked the relatively anodyne question of the Republican congressman and proud Trump loyalist what he thought about the persuadability of the fundamental and curiously undecided block.

“If you look at the facts, the facts are very clear that Donald Trump addresses the issues that concern Americans, the economy, our borders, and our foreign policy. And what Vice President Harris is talking about is not that issue,” Donalds replied before pivoting to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.

“She’s talking about wanting to look forward. Or, unfortunately, there’s still a lot of negative rhetoric coming from her campaign, basically saying she and her surrogates that Donald Trump is some threat to democracy, which is a flat-out lie!” Donalds said. “And that lie can be proven to be a lie because he was already president of the United States. The country was thriving when he was president of the United States. And there were no new wars when he was president of the United States.”

Donalds failed to note that at the end of his term, and in the four years that have followed, Trump has baselessly undermined the public’s confidence in US voting systems by claiming he was a victim of a stolen or rigged election, despite zero reliable evidence in support and claims of “bullshit” by his Attorney General Bill Barr.

Nor did he note that Trump called on his Vice President to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which Mike Pence defied and has since described as Trump putting his gains ahead of the Constitution. So, “threat to democracy” isn’t a flat-out lie if one looks at the objective facts of the events surrounding January 6th or Trump’s election denialism for well over four years.

For her part, Bolduan held steady and pivoted to the absurd and false claims made by Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, and the reports of bomb threats at that area schools that have resulted, to which Donalds could only pivot back to attacks.

Watch above via CNN.