On Monday, The Supreme Court handed down several rulings, one of which went in favor of President Trump, expanding his power to fire the heads of Federal agencies, but several others went against him, including one which allows mail-in ballots to arrive after election day and be counted. This decision caused the President to double down on pushing the Save America Act, which became a topic of discussion on Monday's The Arena, on CNN, where Trump was bashed, and the very sanctity of our elections was glossed over.
Host Kasie Hunt turned to CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel, who proceeded to downplay any concern over delaying election results, and of course, went after Trump.
GANGEL: For perspective, does it take a while to count ballots in certain places? Yes. If they're coming in after election day, can it extend it longer? Is it a little messy? Yes.... It's not about corruption or fraud.... So is this a loss for President Trump? Yes. But big picture, he's obsessed with this. It is sort of a loss of his own making because the underlying problem here is he doesn't want to admit he lost in 2020. So he's looking for fraud and corruption where there isn't.
Liberals can always say Trump's losses can be blamed on Trump. Hunt then played a clip of Trump who was asked if he'd sign the housing bill.
TRUMP CLIP: It hasn't been sent to me yet....It's a yawn. Some people say it's wonderful. Compared to the SAVE America Act, just about everything is a big yawn.
After mockingly repeating Trump's "big yawn" description, Hunt welcomed in former Trump White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley, who she would almost immediately interrupt.
HUNT: The President calls it a big yawn....Why not take the political win on housing under these circumstances?
GIDLEY: I think he is going to take the victory lap in some form or fashion. I do think, though, he is focused on making sure that our elections have some semblance of faith, trust and confidence, which they have been losing now in this country for decades. You remember around 65% of Republicans did not believe that Joe Biden won the election, but around 60-
HUNT: Isn't that President Trump's fault?
GIDLEY: But around 63 percent of --
HUNT: Didn't he tell them that he -- (Hunt laughs)GIDLEY: But around 63 percent of Democrats did not believe that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton. People have been complaining about this process for a long time.
Gidley continued, addressing Gangel's claim that Trump was "obsessed" and then turned his attention to the SAVE Act, which would require voter ID, and prevent voter fraud, something that Hunt didn't seem to have much interest in.
GIDLEY: He is not obsessed with this.
GANGEL: Yes. [Laughter]
GIDLEY: Unless you consider obsessed with 90 percent of the country, which also agrees only American citizens should decide the outcome of American elections.
HUNT: But that's already a law.
GIDLEY: I don't get to vote in Italy, I don't get to vote in Germany or France, and I'm sure you don't either. Only in this country --
HUNT: It's also the law, Hogan-
GIDLEY: Well, it's also the law you can't come into this country illegally, but yet people do it all the time. It's also the law you can't murder somebody, yet murder happens in big cities all the time. So, to pretend as though just because it's a law, it doesn't happen is ridiculous. It happens constantly.
HUNT: The Heritage Foundation is the one that has studied this, between someone voting when they're not a citizen and the number of votes required to change the outcome of an election.
GIDLEY: Sure, but how many -- how many instances of fraud are okay? Is it one? A hundred?
HUNT: I'm not arguing instances of fraud are okay. The question is, can we trust or not the results of our elections. And it's required for us --
GIDLEY: No question. And on both sides, people don't trust it. That's just the statistics.
Not sure why Hunt would bring up The Heritage Foundation's study on voter fraud, which noted, among other things, "In 2015, a city council election in the New Jersey town of Perth Amboy was decided by a mere 10 votes. A judge overturned the election and ordered a new one after it was revealed that at least 13 illegal absentee ballots had been cast."
Hunt then outrageously allowed Democratic Strategist Adrienne Elrod, to go unchallenged while claiming that Trump is, "actively trying to disenfranchise voters." Unfortunately, it was consistent with the entire segment.
