A former official in President Donald Trump’s first administration lost it during a panel discussion on CNN’s “NewsNight” after a Democratic analyst raised Trump’s threat to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling places for the midterm elections.
Ken Cuccinelli, Trump’s former acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, lost his cool as Democratic analyst Adam Mockler questioned his argument that Trump is just “pulling your chain” by threatening to send ICE to polling places. Cuccinelli said that it has been illegal since the Reconstruction Era for federal agents to show up at polling places with weapons.
As Cuccinelli and Mockler attempted to talk over one another, the crosstalk became too much for Cuccinelli to bear.
“I’ve been being polite to you all day, and I’m done with it!” Cuccinelli said, “This is the same kind of attack on sensitive spaces that was made, and Tom Homan answered it quite well earlier this week. Going into schools, hospitals, et cetera. He called the bluff.”
Mockler noted that the Trump administration has already “skirted” several court orders this year.
“Just because I point out that Trump has already tried to overturn an election doesn’t mean that you can go on some random tangent,” Mockler shot back.
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