CNN Anchor Busts Vivek Ramaswamy On Abortion Deaths And Trump’s ‘They’re Eating The Pets!’ Lie

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt busted Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy over unnecessary abortion deaths and former President Donald Trump’s “They’re eating the pets!” lie when he tried to answer a question with a question.

Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) have been waging a campaign of lies against Haitian migrants that peaked with Trump’s “They’re eating the pets!” debate rant, which has been blamed for a rash of threats against schools, hospitals, and other institutions in and around Springfield, Ohio.

Ramaswamy was a guest on Tuesday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning; a pair of claims were tested at the tail end of the interview. Ramaswamy asked for evidence of Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim that there are “women bleeding out in parking lots” in response to questions about Trump’s claim.

In response, Hunt cited documented cases of women dying because of delayed abortion care — and also got Ramaswamy to admit he saw “no evidence” of Trump’s claim when he visited Springfield:

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: I’d like to see that standard applied a little more even-handedly across the board. In that same debate, you had Kamala Harris making the claim also repeatedly, many times since, that women are bleeding out in parking lots when there isn’t a shred of evidence of a single woman–.

KASIE HUNT: There was actually a woman who died in Georgia who– because she– there were two women, in fact, one in particular, who couldn’t receive the care that she needed.

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: There’s there’s no evidence of a woman bleeding out in a parking lot–.

KASIE HUNT: But is there–.

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: (CROSSTALK).

KASIE HUNT: Is there evidence.

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: (INDISTINCT PATTER)

KASIE HUNT: Have you seen evidence of migrants eating pets? Like if we’re going to talk about evidence, have you seen evidence of Haitian migrants eating pets?

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: Having gone to Springfield, I didn’t see that evidence.

But what I will tell you is I’m bringing that up because you brought up the Haitian migrant point. There are residents in the community that have pointed to that. There isn’t even that level of a shred of evidence to support a single woman in the United States bleeding out in a parking lot.

That’s been a repeated claim made by Kamala Harris. So I think when we’re getting into fact checking, I think we should apply the same standards 360 degrees.

And I think we should not use Kamala Harris quote there to sidestep a debate about abortion policy, just as we shouldn’t use some other quote as an excuse to sidestep a debate about immigration policy. And of course, thesis of this book is let’s not use the fringe words that somebody on either side might say. And let’s focus on the actual content of the debate, even when we disagree most.

I think that’s going to be a key step to reviving our country. And the beauty of America is we can disagree badly and I believe still get together at the dinner table at the end of it. That’s the America I miss when I grew up, not that far from Springfield myself. And I think that’s the America I’d like to see us revive. And that was a core motive for me writing the book that we’re releasing today.

KASIE HUNT: All I will say is that we did see that the family of the woman in Georgia, she was at– they were at the event where Kamala Harris did an interview with Oprah and they heartbreakingly had lost their daughter, who, of course, was was also a mother.

In addition to the woman whose family shared their story with VP Harris and Oprah Winfrey, there have been many reports of women being denied care while experiencing severe bleeding, including at least one who was told to wait in the parking lot until her condition worsened sufficiently.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.