Cuomo Grills Santorum Over Evangelicals Excusing Trump for Stormy Daniels: ‘That’s Hypocrisy’
Rick Santorum and Chris Cuomo had an intense conversation today over why President Donald Trump’s evangelical supporters so easily disregard the ongoing Stormy Daniels controversy.
Cuomo said it was an “apparent hypocrisy” that so many evangelical voters seem to have chosen to laud Trump’s policies while ignoring his history of moral failings — including the alleged affair with a porn star that has dominated the news in recent weeks. Santorum said Christians recognize that everyone sins and makes mistakes, though Cuomo noted that these same voters (including Santorum) sung a different tune when Bill Clinton faced impeachment over the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
“When it suits the politics, the piety is great, and when it doesn’t the politics, the piety is easily excused,” Cuomo said, “and that’s hypocrisy.”
Santorum acknowledged that political interests seem to come first and foremost with everyone these days, but Cuomo noted “you’re not going out of your way to talk about these affairs the way you did with Bill Clinton.” When they reached the topic of Daniels, Cuomo noted that the controversial element goes beyond Trump’s sordid private life, and it’s interesting to see the silence from people who used to say “character has to count” for presidents. This especially since Trump has never publicly begged for repentance and forgiveness.
“Isn’t that convenient?” Cuomo asked. “It just feels if you put a D next to his name instead of an R, there would have been a lot of loud and proud people talking about it.”
Santorum recently made a splash in the news after saying that Parkland students marching for gun control would be better off taking CPR classes instead. Today, he and Cuomo also fought about over the current system of background checks and how better to control who in America can obtain firearms.
Watch above, via CNN.
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