CNN Analyst Defending Trump Criticizes Colleague for ‘Racist and Condescending Insult’

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A Hispanic conservative CNN analyst said his colleague attacked him with “the most racist and condescending insult I’ve ever heard” after a back-and-forth on Anderson Cooper’s program on July 15.

Steve Cortes, one of the few conservative analysts on the openly anti-Trump network and a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, said the president’s tweets about progressive Congresswomen were “wrong” but pushed back against Cooper’s labeling Trump a “demagogue.”