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Florida AG Pam Bondi is still steamed that Anderson Cooper confronted her on national television
Florida’s Attorney General is still furious with Anderson Cooper.
Pam Bondi tells Fox News the CNN anchor ‘basically mocked me’ during an interview this week about her efforts to help those impacted by the mass shooting inside of gay nightclub in Orlando that left 49 people dead.
Cooper called Bondi out for what he saw as hypocrisy because she fought against making same-sex marriage legal in her state writing that it would ‘induce public harm.’
‘I get it. He’s hurt,’ she said of the openly gay Cooper.
‘He is a champion of the LGBT community. But you know, that’s a time for us to come together … Emotions are high. I saw later that he had cried when he was reading the names. let’s just focus on unity and love. He basically mocked me for saying that.’
Bondi added that she wanted to talk about some fundraising scams that had been popping up since the killings.
‘He just flipped on me,’ she said. ‘There’s a time and place for everything. If he wants to ask me about doing my job, defending the constitution, but to incite anger and hatred–was not the time nor the place in front of a hospital.’
Cooper defended his line of questioning on Thursday: ‘It’s my job to hold people accountable. And if on Sunday a politician is talking about love and embracing “Our LGBT community,” I don’t think it’s unfair to look at their record and see if they have actually ever spoken that way publicly before. Which I never heard her say.’
Cooper added that ‘there is irony’ to the fact that Bondi is now championing her effort to help the gay community, including attack survivors, with ‘the very right which allows gay spouses to bury their dead and loved ones’ which he points out, is “a right that would not exist if Ms. Bondi had had her way. I think it’s fair to ask her about that.’
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Mike says:
Interesting. Looks like Fox news tried to bait her into being upset and she was still really respectful of Anderson Cooper. I give her props for that.
Jim says:
Maybe she should try telling the truth the next time she is confronted by a journalist.
Robin says:
Bondi is an IDIOT!!! I live in Florida and she HAS stopped gay marriage 4 times even though a federal judge passed it. She never answered any of Anderson’s questions just like her boss Governor Scott–they never answer a question when asked. Anderson asked her all the RIGHT questions and she did not answer anyof them back. She is a BITCH, nobody who is in the LGBTQ community can stand her and she needs to SHUT UP!!! I can’t wait till she is OUT of office. She never wanted gay marriage and she should be one to talk–she has been married 5 times. She needs to get over herself!!!!
YAY ANDERSON!!!!!!
michael cornwell says:
GOOD FOR ROBIN….AND kudos to ANDERSON,,,,,
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vern dufford says:
She go to all the funerals! She just might see that many of her constituents are really really dead and that they have loved ones that…VOTE!
Larry says:
She wasn’t being respectful of Anderson Cooper she was shading Anderson Cooper for being a man that was crying and how he himself supports the LGBT Community as if it’s a bad thing. Yes Pam we know Anderson has always supported LGBT rights for equality but YOU have not and that is the point Anderson was making. This woman is scum through and through and has no sense of decency. She angry and bitter that the world knows she is anti LGBT yet she wants so desperately to be seen as a person supporting the LGBT community. Go home Pam. Just go home.