Cuomo Trashes 'Demagogue' Trump for Bringing Back Death Penalty

CNN host Chris Cuomo devoted his closing argument Thursday night to trashing President Trump for bringing back the death penalty. The CNN host argued that the death penalty was racist; providing statistics showing that the death row population has about the same amount of blacks and whites before arguing "half of homicide victims are African-American but the death penalty is way more prevalent when the victim is white." Cuomo provided statistics showing that the death penalty is applied far more often when a black person kills a white person than when a white person kills a black person. Cuomo referred to the death penalty as "a vestige of a less evolved society," pointing to the fact that the United States joins China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt, and Somalia as the countries with the highest number of confirmed executions. Cuomo closed by declaring that in America, "the popularity of killing people has fallen and we are now split about 50/50 and that is the stage for this election. This President knows we are divided and he is pushing on prejudice. That's what a demagogue does." He devoted the final seconds of his monologue to chanting phrases he associates with President Trump: "Muslims stay out! Brown folks go home!"