When Acosta asked Frost if she was “okay” with Trump using the military in this way, Frost wandered off on a tangent until Acosta cut in:
JIM ACOSTA: Yeah, Katie, I mean, the second part of this is, you know, people toss around the term enemy as Donald Trump has, but this talk of using the military, using the National Guard to go after political opponents.
Your response to that? Are you comfortable with that?
KATIE FROST: I want to go back to something real quick, Maria, saying earlier she was trying to tie the unfortunate attack on Paul Pelosi somehow to President Trump’s rhetoric, which is quite a stretch.
Someone had– who was having a mental health crisis is somehow attached to President Trump’s rhetoric.
But at the same time, my Democratic colleagues do not want President Biden and more importantly, Vice President Harris to be anyway, held accountable for the deaths that have happened on their watch because of their failed leadership. We have 13 service members who should be alive today, but they tragically died in Afghanistan.
JIM ACOSTA: Yeah Katie, I.
KATIE FROST: Represent.
JIM ACOSTA: But that’s that’s not.
KATIE FROST: No. Can I finish my point–
JIM ACOSTA: But can you can you respond to my question though?
–For a moment? Well, no, I can’t because you’re you’re not even answering my question. My question was about using the military or the National Guard against political opponents.
Shouldn’t that be a red line that we don’t cross as a country?
KATIE FROST: I do not believe in any way we’re going–. I do not believe we’re going to be seeing that happen.
We are seen a lot of red lines we never thought would be crossed before in our country happening under the Biden-Harris administration.
I didn’t think we would see the Department of Justice so weaponized as we have seen, to go after Republicans, people who just wanted to–
JIM ACOSTA: What do you mean by that?
KATIE FROST: –ask questions. I think–.
JIM ACOSTA: What do you mean by that? Weaponized.
KATIE FROST: I’m saying here in Georgia, my home state, what is what is happening in Fulton County, in my home state here of Georgia with these people who are being under investigation?
Because they simply held a meeting and went to ask questions about the election. They are now under indictment.
President Trump is being targeted by the Department of Justice.
JIM ACOSTA: The allegations go further than that–.
KATIE FROST: — question, no one else would have been. The fact, respectfully, the wasn’t for the fact that he was running for president. You and I both know a lot of these things wouldn’t be happening. Jack Smith–.
(CROSSTALK)
JIM ACOSTA: These investigations started before we got into the campaign season. And he. All right.
He did try to strong arm the secretary of state of Georgia to overturn the election results. I don’t have time, Maria, to get back to you.
But I mean, we do have to stick to the facts. All right, Katie, thanks so much.
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