Stunned CNN anchor takes Republican to task over Trump’s blatant hypocrisy

CNN anchor Jake Tapper could not abide U.S. Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) looking past President Donald Trump’s duplicity fueling his controversial $1.8M slush fund.

What set Tapper off wre the examples of government’s “weaponization” that Flood used to defend the existence of the unpopular fund.

“Donald Trump has been under assault from actors in the federal government for a long time. But so have pro-lifers. So has Turning Point USA. So have school board members that were questioning our school board — people who cared about what the school board was doing. Parents, they were under assault in this lawfare world under Joe Biden,” said Flood.

But Tapper called out Trump’s own politicized DOJ targeting his perceived enemies with bogus investigations and indictments — many of which were too flimsy and contrived to survive a grand jury summary.

Tapper warned that “there are probably people that would disagree with you” on whether or not it was “inappropriate lawfare” on some of his examples, before going on the attack.

“What about President Trump telling Attorney General [Pam] Bondi to go after [Sen.] Adam Schiff and [state prosecutor] Letitia James and [former FBI head] James Comey?” demanded Tapper. “What about the investigation into Cassidy Hutchinson? What about the investigation into E. Jean Carroll, allegedly for perjury?”

“Do you not see that other people can look at what's going on right now and say, 'that's also lawfare, except it's against the president's critics?'” Tapper added.

But Flood refused to acknowledge the hypocrisy.

“Well, in those situations that you just talked about, it takes a grand jury in the federal system, probable cause before they indict. Same thing with Trump. As we have seen several times throughout this current president's term, his second term they have attempted to get grand jury indictments and grand juries have said ‘no.’”

Flood also insisted that Comey “was a government actor” with “government resources” and “arguably did things that were out of bounds.” He then defended Trump’s DOJ investigating Trump’s sexual assault victim Carroll, claiming it “was proven in some sense that she, in fact, did have her efforts underwritten by a donor,” which he claimed qualifies “as perjury.”

But Flood refused to acknowledge Trump’s own misbehavior in abusing DOJ resources to target his people on his political hit list, as other critics have claimed, saying only “if it's happening under President Trump, then those individuals should receive compensation from a fund like this.”

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