The White House press room was left speechless on Thursday after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt invited Maryland angel mom Patty Morin to speak about her daughter Rachel, who was raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant (a story largely ignored by the liberal media until the briefing). But during Friday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish scoffed and chuckled at Morin as she chided the White House for their “use of the victims' families.”
Before writing off Morin’s story from discussions of illegal immigration, Cornish did play a soundbite of the grieving mother’s reaction to her Democratic Senator, Chris Van Hollen flying to El Salvador to be with an alleged MS-13 gang member instead of meeting with her:
And to have a senator from Maryland who didn't even acknowledge or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured. [Transition] To fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that's not even an American citizen. Why does that person have more right than I do? Or my daughter?
But as she was noting that the cases were not directly related, Cornish couldn’t seem to help herself as she openly scoffed and chuckled.
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