CNN's Cuomo Says 'America First' 'Smacks of a Jingoism and an Exclusionary View of Humanity'

Ryan Foley | September 8, 2018
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During Friday's edition of Cuomo PrimeTime, host Chris Cuomo engaged in a lengthy exchange with Former Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski.  Cuomo said that the "America First Agenda" "smacks of a jingoism and an exclusionary view of humanity that most people don't want repeated."  He also seemed to agree with the anonymous author of the New York Times op-ed when he said that the good economy comes "despite his manner," "despite his divisiveness," "despite the worries about his constant lying and his competence that people in the White House complain about consistently."  When Lewandowski praised President Trump for deporting a Nazi living in Queens, New York; Cuomo responded: "You want me to salute him for deporting a Nazi? Great." Cuomo quickly resumed attacking the Trump administration: "But then when he gets criticized for taking thousands of children away from their parents, you ignore it. You deny it, or you try to misconstrue it as something else. That's the problem. It's not removing the Nazi. It's cottoning to Nazis. It's telling white supremacists they're good people. Deport one? Good. Tell all of them they're kind of okay? Not good."

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