‘Trump Is Threatening Young Women!’ CNN Analyst Says Talk Of Biden Pardons Is Because ‘Old Man’ Trump ‘Is A Threat!’
CNN Democratic analyst Karen Finney ripped President-elect Donald Trump as an “old man” who is “threatening young little women” after he launched a dead-of-night threat to Liz Cheney over her interactions with Cassidy Hutchinson.
Trump posted a message encouraging a criminal investigation into Cheney after a GOP-controlled subcommittee released a report saying the same, and accusing Cheney of “witness tampering” over her outreach to Hutchinson.
He wrote “Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the evidence obtained by the subcommittee, which states that ‘numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI.’”
On Wednesday’s edition of CNN This Morning, anchor Kasie Hunt asked Finney to weigh in, and the former Clinton campaign staffer suggested Hutchinson is also under threat from Trump:
KAREN FINNEY: So there’s a couple of things here I think we need to be mindful of.
Number one, as we have more votes have been counted, Donald Trump’s lead is not as massive as they have been portraying it. Right? Democrats actually did a lot better than we were talking about on election night, which means those Republicans have to be careful as they have to face voters in two years.
How much are they letting him focus backwards versus forwards? One of the things we did hear from voters was a concern that he would be more focused on retribution than lowering their prices. And he’s already admitted he’s not sure if he can lower the price of groceries. That’s not going to bode well come the next couple of months if people are seeing that focus on, you know, retribution.
Secondly, I think on this this issue, I think I personally would like to see Joe Biden do a broad-based clemency program. And I’m going to say this because it’s so important, looking at people who are nonviolent offenders who are if he’s going to do, I want him to do the other piece. But I think it’s critical there’s more he can do for people who there are people who are on death row. There are people who were caught underneath some of the policies that he passed.
At the same time, I think we have to reframe how we’re talking about this protective pardon.
The only reason we’re having this conversation is because Donald Trump is a threat. He’s threatening little young women like Cassidy Hutchinson. Little 20-something who went up to Capitol Hill, did her civic duty and told the truth. How pathetic.
KASIE HUNT: Let’s not call her little–
KAREN FINNEY: No, she’s not little but I’m saying she’s a young– she’s a young 20 something. And this old man is going to use the powers of the presidency to go after her for her civic duty. And so I think we have to remember that these people are in danger because he is a threat to their safety and security.
Watch above via CNN This Morning.
