Jake Tapper tried to pin down Kirsten Gillibrand’s hypocrisy for calling President Trump a racist for immigration policies she used to support. He asked a straightforward question, “Let me ask you if Trump’s immigration positions are racist, were they racist when you held some of those positions as well?” She answered by explaining why she changed her position without answering the question.
Tapper reworded the question and asked it again. “So, what’s the difference, though, just help me understand, between your previous positions, which you characterize as wrong and not empathetic, and President Trump’s positions today that you call racist?” Gillibrand “answered” by launching into an attack on Trump, seemingly saying that when Trump says it, it sounds meaner, and followed with an anti-Trump monolog that distorted the history of the Statue of Liberty and the Emma Lazarus poem, “The New Colossus (Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…)