Sebastian Gorka Calls Out CNN’s Chris Cuomo For Spreading ‘Classic Fake News’

Trump aide Sebastian Gorka appeared on CNN Monday morning and discussed the details of Trump’s proposed travel order with host Chris Cuomo. Cuomo was basically all, “OMG GORKA TRUMP CALLED IT A BAN SO IT’S TOTALLY A BAN ON ALL MUSLIMS OMG OMG OMG.”

I’m hardly exaggerating. Cuomo is convinced the travel ban unfairly targets Muslims, even though the order affects just six countries– three of which are state sponsors of terrorism. (The other three are known safe havens for terrorist groups.) Not to mention that the Obama administration originally identified those places as countries of great concern. But Cuomo’s convinced the Trump administration went with the countries identified by the Obama administration for one reason and one reason only: To mask Trump’s TRUE intention, which is to ban #AllTheMuslims.

“I explain it by you wanting to go with the original model to make it easier to pass because you were mimicking what [Barack] Obama did, and therefore masking your true intention was to not make it about travel, make it about Muslims,” Cuomo said. “And as you well know, not just in your own rhetoric but the president’s, he has said time and again that he thinks there’s a problem with Islam and that he thinks that the Muslims may have a problem with us.”

I cannot believe we’re still having this argument. Islamic terrorists do have a problem with us, and the order doesn’t specifically target #AllTheMuslims. We can’t help that the countries identified happen to have Muslim majorities. Besides, the order doesn’t apply to the CRAPTON of remaining Muslim countries out there. As Gorka said, if this was about targeting Muslims, why didn’t the ban include– oh, I don’t know– Egypt or Indonesia?

Cuomo and facts don’t go together well. He said the order “sends an ugly message to our Muslim community here in the United States.”

Gorka was over it.

“Well, unfortunately, what you’ve just spun is classic fake news,” Gorka said.

Somehow, the conversation devolved from there and got into a heated debate on CNN’s ratings. Yes, really.

“That’s why your viewing figures are in the tank,” Gorka said.

“No, actually we’re up over 100 percent year over year. But don’t let the facts get in your way. You’re good at avoiding them,” Cuomo shot back.

Here’s a transcript of the back and forth. Via Free Beacon:

GORKA: Unless you’re being mandatory in every airport in America, you’re in the tank, Chris.
CUOMO: We’re up 100 percent year over year, Sebastian. What you said is foolishly wrong—it’s not just abusive of fact, but its silly with its own logic. CNN has benefited so greatly from the current dialogue and the demand for fact and testing power, that it is demonstrable by any metric you want to use. But I don’t care about that. Let’s put that to the side.
GORKA: Chris, you’re just comedy now. It’s just comedy.
CUOMO: You may think it’s comedy, but I want to address things that really matter.
GORKA: Getting two viewers instead of one is a 100 percent increase, Chris. You know that, right?
CUOMO: Excuse me?
GORKA: Getting two viewers instead of one is a 100 percent increase as well.
CUOMO: That’s not the numbers. Those aren’t the numbers involved. But again, that’s not the point.
GORKA: Chris you’re playing games. You’re playing games.
CUOMO: Good try. Good try. I give you points for that, Sebastian. Next time I see you, the meal is on me.
GORKA: Good spin, Chris.
CUOMO: But this isn’t about CNN’s success, because that’s obvious.
GORKA: No, it’s about relevance.

Here’s the full exchange:

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CNN is pathetic. But you already knew that, didn’t you?