CNN Lets Axed MSNBC Host Rant About Trump ‘Kidnapping People’ And Using ‘Concentration Camps’

Axed MSNBC host Tiffany Cross claimed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was “kidnapping people” off the streets of America and sending them off to “concentration camps.”

Cross joined a panel discussion on “CNN NewsNight” with host Abby Phillip, and she argued that the Trump administration was using Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — with the help of the Army National Guard — to “disappear” people the way the Nazi regime did in Germany.

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CNN’s Tiffany Cross repeatedly accuses President Trump of disappearing people and sending them to Nazi style concertation camps.

“We’re talking about it like it’s no big deal that they are kidnaping people and transporting them to concentration camps” pic.twitter.com/vKLbbSLQT2

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“I think this is the challenge I have with even talking about this,” Cross said. “We are normalizing a government agency disappearing people. We’re normalizing — we’re talking about it like it’s no big deal that they are kidnapping people and transporting them to concentration camps, both domestic and foreign.”

New York Post Editor-at-Large Kelly Jane Torrance objected to the terminology, saying, “I think that’s kind of insulting to Jewish Holocaust survivors.”

“I think it’s insulting what they’re doing. It is not insulting to the Jewish Holocaust,” Cross protested. “I find it insulting that you could even fix your mouth to defend this disgusting behavior.”

“Are there gas ovens at these —?” Torrance attempted to get a straight answer out of Cross, to no avail.

“It doesn’t matter! It’s a concentration camp what they’re doing and they are disappearing people, claiming that these are people who have committed the most harsh crimes, but according to the reporting less than 10% of these people have committed harsh crimes so to do the victim Olympics and decide who had it worse I can tell you I can participate in that too,” Cross claimed.

“Let’s be accurate and honest,” Torrance challenged her.

“The fact that we’re presenting this like it’s political fodder that a government agency is disappearing people, it is not a political point, it is nothing to do with Jewish people,” Cross claimed — despite the fact that she’d been the one to draw the direct comparison when she invoked the concentration camps — and then blamed Torrance for trying to “make yourself of somebody else the center of attention.”

“Tensions are so heightened, using that kind of language is not helpful,” she said.

“Tensions are heightened because this BS administration is kidnapping people. It has nothing to do with my language. It has to do with the actions that are being taken by this administration,” Cross objected, refusing to let the point go.

Border czar Tom Homan would disagree with Cross, however. He told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, during an appearance on “The Story,” that rhetoric like Cross’ was what was driving violent ambush attacks against ICE agents — and he did not believe it was likely to stop.