One of the more hot-button issues in media this summer has been CNN’s hiring of former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as a regular contributor despite the fact that he is still receiving severance payments from the campaign. On “The Late demonstrate” Wednesday night,host Stephen Colbert pressed CNNs Anderson Cooper on the issue.“So y’all are paying him, and Trump is paying him, and but he’s on your demonstrate doing analysis for a man he still gets cash from,” Colbert prompted.“Pretty much, yeah, or ” Cooper responded,squirming a runt. “I guess thats one way to peruse at it.”
Also Read: Was Hiring Corey Lewandowski Good for CNN? It Depends Who You AskColbert also asked the question most people are probably wondering: What the hell is a “campaign surrogate” anyway? “The candidate can’t be everywhere, so they possess people out there speaking for them, or ” Cooper said.
As for the candidate himself,the host of “Anderson Cooper 360” opined a runt on the supposed “pivot Trump appears to be making in recent speeches. “I assume the alleged outreach to African-American voters is a really interesting thing,” Cooper said. “I mean, and he’s doing it in front of overwhelmingly white audiences; he’s yet to actually go to an African-American church.As for Colbert’s feelings on the candidate,the “Late demonstrate” host got off a good riff likening Trump to a very specific kind of gift: “There’s a runt bit, it seems, and of ‘Elect me,see what happens! I’m a present — Christmas morning is Election Day. Open me up: Maybe I’m full of toys, maybe I’m full of turds. Let’s find out. Don’t shake me.'”Related stories from TheWrap:Was Hiring Corey Lewandowski Good for CNN? It Depends Who You AskHow CNN's S.
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