CNN’s Chris Cuomo challenged a Republican lawmaker on Thursday over the GOP’s defense of its conspiracy theory-supporting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
“Don’t be the worst of us,” the “Cuomo Prime Time” host urged Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), one of 147 Republicans who voted last month to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory.
The testy exchange followed the House vote to expel Greene from her committee assignments. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) failed to censure Greene on Wednesday.
Mullin repeatedly dismissed Greene’s endorsement of the dangerous QAnon movement as just something she said before entering Congress. Greene offered a nonapology for the comments on Thursday.
It’s “time to move on,” Mullin declared.
But Cuomo wasn’t having it, suggesting Mullin only wanted to move on because “it’s inconvenient” for the party.
“You would never move on if it were a Democrat,” the anchor said.
“You know the clock doesn’t stop,” Cuomo said later, noting the GOP has attacked people for comments they have made years earlier if it suited the party.
Mullin argued that Democrats do the same.
“It doesn’t make it good. If the left does it, then let them get taken after it. Don’t be what you oppose. Don’t be the worst of us,” Cuomo fired back.
Watch the interview here: