Florida Attorney General Lied on National TV to CNN’s Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper for more than five minutes Tuesday afternoon confronted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for her past anti-gay actions and comments, including the false claim that recognizing same-sex marriage would harm the state of Florida. So rattled was the Republican prosecutor that she seems to have decided a lie was her only way out at one point.
Cooper hammered Bondi for her attacks on the LGBT community, and asked why people shouldn’t call her a hypocrite when she stood on national TV Sunday and talked about the targets of the Orlando terror attack as “our LGBT community,” when she’s never worked to support or defend them before.
Point after point after point Cooper made, coming to this exchange:
“I will say, I have never really seen you talk about gays and lesbians and transgender people in a positive way until now,” Cooper told Bondi. “I read your Twitter history for the last year and you were tweeting about, you know, National Dog Month and National Shelter Dog Appreciation Day, or Adopt a Shelter Dog Day. It is Gay Pride Month. You never even tweeted about Gay Pride Month.”
“Well actually, if you look at my website now,” Bondi claimed, “we have hands clasped together, all different-colored, rainbow-hands people,” Bondi said.
As NCRM pointed out in our original report earlier today, we checked and found no evidence of “hands clasped together, all different-colored, rainbow-hands people.”
In fact, as we wrote earlier, “An examination of Bondi’s official government website, campaign website, Twitter page, and Facebook pages here and here, show nothing that appears like what she mentioned.”
So NCRM called Bondi’s Florida office, and then emailed her communications director, with Bondi’s exact quote. We told Whitney Ray that NCRM was stunned to find absolutely no mention of the terror attack whatsoever on her website, and, aside from two tweets, nothing else on social media – and those did not even mention the attack targeted the LGBT community.
We also asked if he could explain why she has never even mentioned gay pride month, or that the victims of the attack were LGBT.
We gave Bondi’s spokesperson a 5:30 PM EDT deadline, and we did not receive any response to our inquiry.
It should be strongly noted that AG Bondi, aside from two tweets, and whatever media appearances she’s made, has made zero mention on her office’s official website that there was a major terror attack in Orlando, and that the LGBT community was targeted.
Nothing.
Not a word.
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