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Anderson Cooper Teams Up with Cory Booker to RIP ICE, 'Deeply Corrupt' Trump
Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) continues to get a pass from the leftist media. The man who bragged on NBC in 2019 that his testosterone sometimes makes him want to punch Donald Trump appeared Monday night on Anderson Cooper 360 to call Trump dangerous, reckless, chaotic, cruel and deeply corrupt, with absolutely zero pushback.
Cooper brought up the September 30th overnight ICE raid at a Chicago apartment complex, which resulted in the arrests of 37 illegal aliens from several countries. The complex was reportedly targeted because it was frequented by members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. Two gang members were said to be among those captured along with others with criminal records.
Cooper mentioned the 37 illegal aliens earlier in the show. But if you were hearing about this for the first time from Cooper in this interview, all you heard was a crafted Democrat talking point on the horrors of ICE:
COOPER: You showed this video earlier. It was put out by Homeland Security. It's highly produced, very slick. Posted by Secretary Kristi Noem. It shows the huge ICE raid last week on a Chicago apartment building. I mean, it looks like an action film.
As you know, families, including children, were forced outside, zip-tied, a Blackhawk helicopter hovering overhead. What do you make of what is happening in Chicago and the way this administration is portraying it?
BOOKER: I mean, this should appall all Americans. When you say people were zip-tied, those were American citizens that were zip-tied, American children that were zip-tied. As he's pursuing what he thinks is an action hero movie, what's really happening is people are getting hurt, communities are being torn apart, people are afraid. And he is violating everyday our values, not to mention our public safety and our strength.
Donald Trump is reckless, chaotic, cruel, and deeply corrupt. And this is something I'm glad to see most Americans on both sides of the aisle together say that is wrong.
"Facts First" CNN did not acknowledge that DHS debunked the zip-tied children claim as an internet hoax.
Cooper then encouraged another Booker speech: "Do you think this is an attempt to kind of normalize, you know, federal troops on the ground in major American cities?" Booker then bizarrely went on to compare these ICE raids and arrests to the arrest of radical leftist Angela Davis in 1970 when she was on the FBI's Most Wanted list: "the reality is, as in America, we know, as the great James Baldwin said after the false wrong arrest of Angela Davis, if they come for you in the morning, then they're going to come for me at night. When you take away other people's values anywhere, it's a threat to all of our shared precious values everywhere."
Angela Davis was later the vice-presidential nominee in 1980 and 1984 for the Communist Party USA, which wasn't all about our "shared precious values" of freedom. Booker closed by going after Trump, again, "He doesn't respect checks and balances. Donald Trump is dangerous, and we more and more need to realize that."
Well, since Booker declared that sometimes his testosterone makes him want to punch Trump, there have been two assassination attempts on Trump. Now he says we need to realize how dangerous he is, as Cooper sits silently by. Both Anderson Cooper and Cory Booker were playing on the same Trump-trashing team. This was a despicable display of media bias at its worst.