Last night, after Trump’s rally had just ended, CNN’s Don Lemon went on rant about just how awful Trump’s rally had been. He decried it as being devoid of facts and full of lies while calling it unhinged and embarrassing.
I didn’t watch it live because I don’t watch CNN before I go to bed to avoid the nightmares!
Kidding. I just don’t watch it.
But Fox News did watch it and is now getting in on the action, with their own writeup about something else that happened during Lemon’s show:
A CNN host accused President Trump of “trying to ignite a civil war” following his raucous speech to a rally in Arizona in which the commander-in-chief blasted the news network and defended his response to racial strife in Virginia.
Don Lemon, host of “CNN Tonight,” made the remark before a packed panel of anti-Trumpers assembled to react to the president’s speech in Phoenix.
“He has given oxygen to racists,” Lemon said. “He hasn’t really said anything [to] denounce the alt-right … He is clearly trying to ignite a civil war in this country. He has not tamped down race.”
Lemon’s guests all heartily concurred, and the discussion moved on to speculation about Trump’s mental health, an increasingly recurring theme on CNN.
“It was an astounding chain of lies tied together by lunatic asides by a man who obviously is mentally unstable,” Republican political consultant Rick Wilson said, adding it was “Castro-esque” and calling him “bat crap crazy.”
Democratic strategist Maria Cardona applauded the “majority of Americans who did not vote for this man.”
“Tonight, Don, America’s enemies are laughing and America, the country, is weeping and we need to do something about it,” Cardona said.
Later in the show, James Clapper, former director of national intelligence and now CNN national security analyst, echoed similar sentiments about the president.
“I don’t know when I’ve listened and watched something like this from a president that I’ve found more disturbing,” Clapper said, adding that it was “downright scary.”
“This behavior and this divisiveness, intellectual and moral and ethical void that the president of the United States exhibits,” Clapper said. “And how much longer does the country—to borrow a phrase—endure this nightmare?”
Here’s the video captured by Free Beacon:
Just like I didn’t watch CNN, I also didn’t watch Trump’s rally. But I really have a hard time believing it was as bad as Don Lemon said it was, especially with regard to inciting a civil war. I mean c’mon.
Perhaps I’ll watch it today and add more precise thoughts on it later.
Just in case you missed it and want to watch it yourself, here she blows: