CNN’s Kasie Hunt Brings Up Trump Riot During Funeral — Notes ‘Sharp Contrast’ in ‘Character’ That Biden Spoke of

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt brought up President-elect Donald Trump’s followers “urging the killing of Mike Pence” four years ago and contrasted Trump’s character with that of late President Jimmy Carter, which President Joe Biden praised in his eulogy.

Hunt, Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper, Kaitlan Collins, Dana Bash, and John King were among the CNN anchors who covered President Carter’s funeral Thursday, a day after Carter’s body lay in state at the Capitol.

At one point during Biden’s speech, he praised Carter for his character and for standing up to “the abuse of power” — a reference that some viewed as an allusion to Trump.

As the service concluded, Blitzer asked Hunt for her impressions of the funeral:

WOLF BLITZER: When you saw this really moving funeral unfold, what was going through your mind?

KASIE HUNT: Yeah, Wolf, you know, for Jimmy Carter and for Joe Biden, in many ways, this is something of a generational conclusion to the way politics used to be done here in in this country.

And just even when you reflected on what it was like to have all of the current living presidents together. It really in many ways underscored that because there are realities around those relationships that haven’t existed in the recent, in American history.

For example, the greeting of Mike Pence by Donald Trump, the first time those two men have been in the same room since, of course, what happened on January 6th, 2021, when there were supporters of Donald Trump’s who were urging the killing of Mike Pence. We’ve never seen a dynamic like that then play out in public in a personal way.

And I was struck by President Biden talking about the character of Jimmy Carter. You know, I think his character is something that a lot of Americans, even if perhaps you didn’t think his presidency went very well or you disagreed with him policy wise, his character was very much on display, especially during the decades of his post-presidency, and became something that was so widely admired.

And to hear President Biden really talk about that, considering how the character of others who are now on the public stage is often talked about, viewed by others.

I thought that that was a remarkable– very generous to Carter, but a sharp contrast that says something about our politics today.

This was not the first meeting since Trump inspired a mob that invaded Capitol grounds chanting for Pence to be hanged because he refused Trump’s demand to go along with a plot to overturn the election as there was a 90-minute meeting days after the attack. The two have not been in the same room since then.

But it was the first such meeting in public, and since investigations revealed Trump approved of the chanting rioters.

Watch above via CNN’s live coverage of President Jimmy Carter’s funeral.