Anderson Cooper Exposes Trump’s Second Amendment Double Standard — With Receipts | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump and his ilk would possibly assume Americans have quick consideration spans, however a 24-hour cable information community has sufficient footage to jog anybody’s reminiscence.

On Monday’s episode of “Anderson Cooper 360,” the CNN anchor tackled MAGA’s pearl-clutching response to Alex Pretti having a hid gun — and the way their response reeks of a double customary.

Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, was filming Border Patrol brokers together with his mobile phone in Minneapolis on Saturday when he tried to assist a fellow demonstrator who was pushed to the bottom by an agent. Pretti was then rapidly swarmed by federal brokers who ultimately wrestled him to the bottom and fatally wounded him after firing 10 photographs, eyewitness video exhibits.

Although Pretti had a gun on him in the course of the time of the incident, the video exhibits that it was by no means in his fingers, and his weapon was solely revealed after an agent took it out of its holster moments earlier than Pretti was shot. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara mentioned at a press convention after Pretti’s demise that he was a “lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.”

Despite Pretti exercising his Second Amendment proper — a proper passionately lauded by Trump’s base — Cooper famous that within the fast aftermath of Pretti’s demise, “administration officials were highly critical of anyone carrying a weapon in the first place.”

Cooper then rolled tape of FBI Director Kash Patel and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s responses to Pretti having a firearm.

“I don’t know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign,” Noem, who infamously shot her personal petmentioned at a press convention Saturday.

“You cannot bring a firearm, loaded with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you wanted,” Patel lately informed Fox News.

Patel added, “It’s that simple. You don’t have that right to break the law and incite violence.”

After rolling the clips of Noem and Patel’s remarks, Cooper appeared visibly perplexed by their rhetoric and famous that this isn’t “what we’re accustomed to hearing” from both of them.

Cooper went on to level out that what makes Patel’s remarks particularly hypocritical is that Patel “went so far as to raise money” for Kyle Rittenhouse, and Cooper supplied the receipts to show it.

Cooper rolled a 2021 clip of Patel soliciting donations for Rittenhouse, who shot three individuals, killing two, at a protest in opposition to police brutality in 2020 when he was 17 years outdated. Rittenhouse was acquitted of homicide after saying he acted in self-defense.

Cooper famous that Rittenhouse had met with Trump, who referred to as Rittenhouse “a nice young man.”

Cooper then segued into Trump, who posted a photograph of Pretti’s firearm to his web site Truth Social Saturday and wrote: “This is the gunman’s gun (with two additional full magazines!), and ready to go – What is that all about?”

“Now, again, this is from a president who, until this weekend, hardly stopped talking about his love for the Second Amendment,” Cooper mentioned, earlier than taking part in a number of clips of Trump defending the Second Amendment.

After airing the clips of Trump, Cooper somberly regarded on the digital camera and concluded:

“Now, he supports the Second Amendment – just not all the time, depending on who’s carrying the gun and who gets killed. Alex Pretti was apparently not his kind of gun owner.”

Watch the clip from “Anderson Cooper 360” in full beneath.