WASHINGTON — It was a simple query being put to almost each Republican senator within the Capitol on Thursday: Ought to the Senate take into accoun
WASHINGTON — It was a simple query being put to almost each Republican senator within the Capitol on Thursday: Ought to the Senate take into account new proof as a part of the impeachment trial?
However when Manu Raju of CNN, a well-respected congressional reporter, put it to Senator Martha McSally of Arizona, a first-term Republican who’s up for re-election this fall, she went on the assault.
“You’re a liberal hack,” she stated. “I’m not speaking to you. You’re a liberal hack.”
She posted a video of the change on Twitter, incomes plaudits from President Trump’s allies, together with the Fox Information host Sean Hannity.
And @TrumpWarRoom, a Trump 2020 account, congratulated Ms. McSally — “THIS is the way you deal with FAKE NEWS,” the account wrote — and urged followers to donate to her re-election marketing campaign.
Mr. Raju is nicely revered on Capitol Hill by members of each events, and CNN stated in a press release that it was “extraordinarily unbecoming for a U.S. senator to sink to this degree and deal with a member of the press this manner for merely doing his job.”
Nicholas Fandos reported from Washington, and Michael M. Grynbaum from New York.