This week, a member of the Trump family has come under attack by a well-known CNN personality.
Anderson Cooper stepped forward to accuse President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, of lying about the circumstance surrounding the “send her back” chant that took place at the president’s North Carolina campaign rally this week.
Anderson attacks
Cooper made the claim on Friday evening’s program, singling out Lara after he finished blasting the president himself.
“It continues with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, who was on TV this morning lying in a way that even contradicts what the president lied about yesterday,” he said. “A couple people. He didn’t say it. I mean, I wouldn’t even normally bring in the daughter in law of the president, but she’s putting herself out there. She has a role in the campaign, and she’s just friggin’ lying.”
The CNN host took particular issue with the way in which the chant got started in the first place, accusing Lara having “primed” the crowd for it. For proof, he offered a video clip in which Lara can be heard saying, just before the president took the stage, “If you don’t love our country, the president said it, ‘You can leave.” Right?”
Lara’s take
Cooper’s attack came after Lara gave an interview with Fox Business earlier in the day.
There, she stated that the crowd spontaneously began the chant without being prompted to do so.
“Anyone insinuating that there was some premeditated plan to orchestrate the ‘send her back’ chant is obviously desperate to continue pushing a biased, racially-charged narrative,” Trump said in a Saturday tweet.
She also tried to dispel any notion that the entire audience participated. “It wasn’t the whole crowd,” she said. “It was just a couple of people right there in the front, but [the president] didn’t say it.”
Flashback
The criticism of Lara Trump is part and parcel of the substantial backlash the president has faced as a result of the chants, and indeed the series of tweets that inspired them.
In those Twitter messages, the president, entrenched in a feud with the far left “squad” comprised of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), suggested that the congresswomen “go and fix” the places from which they came, if they don’t like America. It was following this that the chants of “send her back” — specifically in reference to Somali-born Omar — were initiated by Trump supporters at the rally.
After initially denouncing what occurred at the rally and saying that he disagreed with the chants, the president has since called those most vocal attendees “incredible patriots.”
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