Don Lemon Gets Into Heated Argument with Guest on CNN
CNN host Don Lemon got into a heated argument with former Secret Service agent and current congressional candidate Dan Bongino regarding comments Donald Trump made during a campaign rally in North Carolina.
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment,” Trump said. “By the way, and if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”
Many have criticized Trump for this, saying that he was basically suggesting that gun owners could respond to the possibility of a President Clinton in a violent manner. Trump’s campaign pushed back against this, with Trump himself tweeting: “Media desperate to distract from Clinton’s anti-2A stance. I said pro-2A citizens must organize and get out vote to save our Constitution!”
It was an argument over what Trump actually meant that caused a lengthy and tense conversation between Lemon and Bongino. “To suggest he was calling [for] violence means to me that you came into this with the idea that Donald Trump was calling for violence, let me make the case afterwards. You didn’t come into this with a clear and open mind,” accused Bongino. “I’m sitting at home, I’m watching Donald Trump,” Lemon pushed back. “I have two ears, and I have two eyes and I can see the reactions of people behind me, and we’re not stupid.” “You should be ashamed of yourself,” declared Lemon later.
“Don, frankly, I’m ashamed that you’re talking to me as if I’m a child when 12 years of my life…” spat back Bongino before being interrupted by Lemon. After shouting over each other, Bongino fired off, “You don’t know crap about this, Don. You’re a TV guy. I was a Secret Service agent. Now cut off my mic. Do what you want to do.”
“I’m not going to cut off your mic,” Lemon replied. “I’m going to tell you that you’re sitting here and you’re lying to the American people, you’re lying to the American people, and you know that you’re lying to the American people.”
On Wednesday morning, Trump tweeted his gratitude to Bongino, writing, “You were fantastic in defending both the Second Amendment and me last night on @CNN. Don Lemon is a lightweight — dumb as a rock.”
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