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Tapper, Stefanik spar over Trump’s ‘whole civilization will die’ message to Iran
Tapper pressed Stefanik on whether Trump’s Iran warning amounted to genocide, as she said the remark targeted the Iranian regime and helped bring officials to talks.
- On Sunday, CNN's Jake Tapper and Rep. Elise Stefanik engaged in a contentious six-minute interview on State of the Union, debating President Donald Trump's April 7 post warning that Iran's 'whole civilization will die tonight.'
- Tapper characterized Trump's rhetoric as a 'call for genocide,' while Stefanik argued the President was focusing on the Iranian regime, claiming his 'very strong' language brought officials to the negotiating table and secured a two-week ceasefire.
- Stefanik challenged Tapper's consistency, questioning why he condemns a 20-year-old student chanting 'From the river to the sea' but disputes the President's diplomatic rhetoric regarding Iran's regime.
- Following the segment, Stefanik posted on X that Tapper 'got demolished,' thanking him for boosting sales of her book Poisoned Ivies; the State of the Union account responded, 'We beg to differ.'
- Stefanik expanded the discussion to criticize ideological shifts at elite universities, citing an 88-to-one liberal-to-conservative faculty ratio at Harvard and proposing a 15% cap on foreign students.
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Rep. Elise Stefanik is superb. Watch Stefanik take down the lying political hack Jake Tapper, who tried to smear President Trump by claiming the POTUS’s rhetoric towards Iran amounted to a call for genocide. Stefanik wasn’t having it. A nice Sunday morning on @CNN : “Stefanik directly rejected the accusation when pressed by CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," saying, "President Trump didn’t call for genocide, Jake. You are putting those …
Rep. Stefanik To CNN's Tapper: You're Putting Words In Trump's Mouth, Shame On CNN
Rep. Stefanik To CNN's Tapper: You're Putting Words In Trump's Mouth, Shame On CNN Sunday on CNN's State of the Union, Host Jake Tapper, grilled New York GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik on what he called genocidal remarks made by Donald Trump to Iran, attempting to equate them to the 'From The River To The Sea' chants which terrorized Jewish college students after October 7th. Stefanik, author of Poison Ivies, a book about moral rot at our el…
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