CNN’s Jake Tapper Destroys Trump Over ‘Bigots And Liars’ In His Entourage — Who Made ‘Insanely Racist’ Attack On Kamala Harris

CNN anchor Jake Tapper torched former President Donald Trump over the cartoonish cadre of “bigots and liars” in his orbit — singling out an “insanely racist” attack one of them made on Vice President Kamala Harris .

Trump was escorted to the ABC News debate by Laura Loomer , a debate which was near-universally judged an overwhelming victory for Harris and a “disaster” for Trump.

The moment that has emerged as symbolic of the disaster is Trump’s rant about migrants eating pets (they aren’t) — which sprang from the Loomer-esque MAGA fever swamp.

Loomer — a 9/11 conspiracy theorist — also accompanied Trump on his travel for Wednesday’s 9/11 memorials days after launching her racist barrage at VP Harris.

On Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead , Tapper opened the show with a lengthy deconstruction of Trump’s debate debacle and chalked up things like the eating dogs rant to the “veritable legion of doom of bigots and liars” Trump hangs around with:

The most notorious evidence of that last night came with this outrageous and more than a little bit racist lie about Haitians in one town in Ohio.

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TRUMP: In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.

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TAPPER: This must be the craziest subject to ever rear its head in American presidential debate. Trump latched onto this dark corners of the Internet claim with zero supporting evidence. Springfield City officials tell CNN there have been no credible reports of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by people within the immigrant community.

Conservative commentator Erick Erickson noted, quote, the liars on the right think got Trump to regurgitate their lie. He could have focused on the actual problems in Springfield, but ran with the lie from the idiots on social media, unquote.

Trump is actually traveling with some of these folks, conspiracy peddlers. We should note, a veritable legion of doom of bigots and liars, perhaps none so depraved as this woman, Laura Loomer, he or she is, getting off of Trump’s plane before yesterday’s debate. Just on Sunday, she posted an insanely — insanely racist message that if Harris, whose mom was an Indian immigrant, wins, quote, the White House will smells like curry and White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center, unquote.

On this 23rd anniversary of 911, we should also note, Loomer posted last year that 9/11 was a, quote, inside job, unquote.

Trump continues to bring this person along on his travels with him. Why? I don’t know. But we should note it’s not just Loomer who is in Trump’s circle embracing this migrants are eating your cats meme. It was also pushed by Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance.

And other lawmakers who frankly often seem more motivated by a desire for clicks and owning the libs on social media instead of facts and truth. Vance has acknowledged the possibility, quote, but all these rumors will turn out to be false, unquote. But nonetheless, he urged his supporters to, quote, keep they cat memes flowing, so as to not, quote, let the cry babies in the media dissuade you fellow patriots.

Vance told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins last night the falsehoods are necessary in order to shame the media into covering these issues.

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SEN. J.D. VANCE (R-OH), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The people on the ground dealing with this, think that it is happening. And I think that its important for journalists to actually get on the ground and uncover this stuff for themselves.

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TAPPER: Wild stuff, lies from a senator, lies with a higher purpose.

Watch above via CNN’s The Lead .