'You're burning a lot of calories': CNN's Cuomo mocks GOP lawmaker avoiding Trump's 'pig blood' ...

‘You’re burning a lot of calories’: CNN’s Cuomo mocks GOP lawmaker avoiding Trump’s ‘pig blood’ comments

TOM BOGGIONI
18 AUG 2017 AT 08:48 ET

Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin (NY) gave a profoundly uncomfortable interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Friday morning, refusing to issue much in the way of a condemnation of President Donald Trump’s comments the suggested Islamic terrorists should be lined up and shot with bullets dipped in pig’s blood.

The Republican lawmaker, who Cuomo repeatedly noted is Jewish, seemed pained to have to answer questions about Trump’s “pig blood” tweet and defense of white nationalists, ended up being on the receiving end of Cuomo’s snarky comment that he was “burning a lot of calories” with his evasions.

Noting that Trump’s tweet about the apocryphal pig blood bullet story has been widely debunked, Cuomo put Zeldin on the spot, challenging him to defend the president.

“What I want to ask you, as someone who knows well what works and doesn’t work in the war against terror, what do you make of the idea of the president of the United States asking people to study the idea of dipping bullets in blood and killing people in bunches to send a message to other terrorists?” Cuomo asked.

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