We’ll give him this: Corey Lewandowski sticks to his point, even if he looks ignorant doing it.
Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, turned the search for NYC bomb suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami into a rant against undocumented immigrants Monday even as fellow CNN broadcasters reminded him that Rahami, who later was reportedly caught, is a naturalized U.S. citizen. The bizarre exchange on CNN’s “New Day” was reported by Media Matters.
Co-host Alisyn Camerota asked Lewandowski whether Trump’s prediction of “more and more” attacks was the proper tone for this moment.
Lewandowski answered that his tone “re-highlights the problems we have with our immigration system. What we know is that 40 percent of the people who are in the country illegally have overstayed their visas. And what we hear from the reports this morning is that this person is either potentially of Afghani descent or...”
Camerota interrupted: “A naturalized citizen. That’s not overstaying his visa.”
Co-host Chris Cuomo reminded Lewandowski again that the suspect is neither a refugee nor someone who overstayed his visa.
Lewandowski, hired by CNN as a political commentator shortly after he was fired by Trump in June, then clumsily steered the conversation to Trump’s promise to “root out terrorism” and again questioned whether Rahami was in the country legally.
Meanwhile on Monday, Trump boasted that he called the Manhattan explosion a “bombing” before officials did. Lewandowski ran with that as well, pointing out that his former boss called the Brussels massacre a terrorist attack before any official.
H/T Media Matters