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Charlamagne Tha God called out Jake Tapper during a live CNN interview discussing the presidential race in the potential Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump.
The Breakfast Club co-host appeared on the cable news network with Angela Rye. Tapper asked Rye if America was ready to elect a former prosecutor as president.
“Jake, I don’t even know if that’s the right question, asking if America is ready for a prosecutor,” Charlamagne said. “I mean, is America ready for somebody with all of the criminal charges that Donald Trump has? Most convicted felons can’t even get those kind of jobs that Donald Trump is currently campaigning for. They better can get jobs at McDonald’s and Wal-Mart.”
He continued, “It’s weird to have to say, ‘Is America ready for a prosecutor?’ No, is America ready to elect a criminal?”
Charlamagne also said in the interview he was ready to endorse Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee. He had previously said he would vote in the elections but stopped short of fully endorsing Joe Biden. Charlamagne noted that he supported Biden in the 2020 election in part because Harris was also on the ticket.
Later in the interview, Tapper noted a quote from Charlamagne’s book Get Honest or Die Lying: “My father always told me, ‘You’re not lying to me, you’re lying to yourself.’ It took me a long time to understand the depth of those words but now I comprehend them fully.”
Tapper asked Charlamagne to relate that quote to the current “political rollercoaster,” the radio host took a shot at the media and CNN for how they’ve been covering the presidential election.
Charlamagne condemned the assassination attempt against Trump and the political violence that currently persists in the political world.
“I think the media lied to themselves for a week,” he said about the coverage on cable news networks calling for rhetoric to be toned down in the aftermath of the attack on Trump’s life. “I think CNN lied to themselves for a week. I think MSNBC lied to themselves for a week. And I want folks, especially the media, to understand you don’t have to willfully surrender to fascism.”
He added, “You can’t talk about Trump without telling the truth. He absolutely led an attempted coup of this country. His followers were chanting, ‘Hang Mike Pence.’ He did suggest to Second Amendment supporters do something about Hillary Clinton. You can’t even begin to have conversations about dangerous rhetoric that lead to political violence without talking about Trump.”
Charlamagne called out Speaker Mike Johnson after he said, “Everyone needs to tone down the rhetoric,” he added, “No, it’s really one person.” The host also mentioned that Trump has “created an environment that’s not safe for any politician, including him.”
“I think media is lying to themselves all last week by not addressing that issue in its whole totality,” he said.
Watch Charlamagne’s entire appearance on CNN in the video below.
