After President Trump’s late-night proclamation of a new travel ban on 12 countries considered by the administration to be national security concerns, it was no surprise to see liberals both in office and on CNN and MSNBC up in arms over it on Thursday morning. Their complaints were all too familiar: this was nothing more than a furthering of Trump’s racist agenda, and his connection of the ban to the recent terror attack in Boulder nothing more than a cheap excuse for a distraction from criticisms of the Big Beautiful Bill.
Naturally, evidence against these baseless claims was not difficult to find.
CNN News Central was among the first to harp on Trump’s decision, where host John Berman discussed the legality of the ban with attorney Shan Wu. When asked by Berman whether or not it mattered “that the President overnight justified it based on the attack in Colorado from an Egyptian national, and that Egypt wasn't on the list,” Wu was quick to ridicule the decision.
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