CNN Analyst Alex Thompson Calls BS On Claim Trump Didn’t Go After Political Opponents In Office

CNN analyst and Axios national political correspondent Alex Thompson called BS on Sen. JD Vance’s (R-OH) that former President Donald Trump did not and will not go after his political opponents while in office.

Over the weekend, in an interview with This Week’s Martha Raddatz , Vance claimed Trump “was president for four years and he didn’t go after his political opponents.”

On Monday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning , anchor Kasie Hunt joined Thompson in torpedoing that claim, and Thompson provided receipts:

KASIE HUNT: JD Vance was out on the Sunday shows. Kind of trying to explain all of this means he has found himself in this in this position. But here’s what he tried to say about whether or not Donald Trump would prosecute his political opponents if he’s reelected. Watch.

RADDATZ: Would Donald Trump go after his political opponents?

VANCE: — is the —

RADDATZ: Would Donald Trump go after his political opponents?

VANCE: No —

RADDATZ: He suggested that in the past.

VANCE: Martha, he was president for four years and he didn’t go after his political opponents.

You know who did go after her political opponents? Kamala Harris, who has tried to arrest everything from pro-life activists to her political opponents —

(CROSSTALK)

RADDATZ: He said those people who cheated would be prosecuted.

VANCE: — and used the Department of Justice as a weapon against people — well, he said that people who violated our election laws will be prosecuted. I think that’s the administration of law. He didn’t say people are going to go to jail because they disagree with me. That is, in fact, been the administration and the policy of Kamala Harris, Martha.

KASIE HUNT: So of course, he said there, Alex, that Trump was president for four years. He didn’t go after his political opponents. The reporting that we know now from these books is that, well, it wasn’t for lack of trying. It was because there were people in his government who said, you can’t do that!

ALEX THOMPSON: That’s absolutely right. And it’s completely ahistorical, what he is saying.

There’s been tremendous amounts of reporting, not just in books, The New York Times that a piece also very recently that really went through!

Also you can just look at his Twitter feed from back then when he was calling on Jeff Sessions to prosecute X person, Y person, etc..

So, you know, it’s just is not re– I understand he’s trying to do a political answer, but it’s just not historically right.

KASIE HUNT: Okay. There we have it.

Watch above via CNN This Morning .