'Who's The Thug Here?': Anderson Cooper Unleashes On Donald Trump
A fed-up Anderson Cooper let loose Monday night on self-proclaimed “law and order” US President Donald Trump, characterising him instead as a “thug.”
“The president seems to think dominating Black people, dominating peaceful protesters, is law and order. It’s not,” Cooper said on CNN.
“He calls them thugs? Who is the thug here? Hiding in a bunker? Hiding behind a suit? Who is the thug?” he snapped.
Cooper noted that the president in a White House statement Monday threatening violence against anti-racist protesters “claimed a power he doesn’t really have” — he “can’t send the military into every state,” he said. “That’s not law and order.”
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What the “president doesn’t seem to know or care is that the vast majority of those protesting, they, too, are calling for law and order. A Black man killed with four officers holding him down, a knee to the neck ... that’s not law and order; that’s murder,” Cooper said.
He added: “I’ve seen societies fall apart as a reporter .... I’ve seen countries ripped apart by hate and misinformation, and political demagogues and racism. We can’t let that happen here.”
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins told Cooper that peaceful protesters were attacked with tear gas and batons Monday so the president could look...
