CNN Calls out Dem Strategist Who Won’t Call Omar Statements Anti-Semitic: You Had a Different Standard with Trump

RUSH EXCERPT:

BLACKWELL: "Maria, let's move to another topic. After comments that some thought were anti-semitic, the resolution passed in the house condemning hate, it really was an all hate matters type approach, instead of going after anti-semitism, it went after islamaphobia, white supremacy and other matters as well. Was this the best way to deal specifically with what launched the catalyst for the need for a response?"
CARDONA: "I do, I actually think it was the best way to deal with this. Look, Victor, what we saw this week was a new Democratic Party that's expanding, that's growing, that's fitting in, what I call beautiful diversity. We elected in November the most diverse Congress in history. What that means is that there will be robust sometimes raucous debates because people are now at the table that are representing communities that have historically been marginalized. They have different perspectives."
BLACKWELL: "Different perspectives, understandable, but do you believe that what she said was anti-semitic?"
CARDONA: "I believe the words she used, absolutely were taken as being anti-semitic.
BLACKWELL: "What does that mean, they were taken as being anti-semitic. Were they anti-semitic or were they not?"
CARDONA: "Well, I don't know what is in her heart. I will go with what Nancy Pelosi said because I believe this. I don't believe she meant them as anti-semitic because I don't believe she understood what her words were meaning, when she uses the word allegiance, foreign country."
BLACKWELL: "There are plenty of times we had conversations with you and maybe not Alice but other Republicans in which they have said nobody knows what's in President Trump's heart and you have said I don't know what's in his heart but I know what comes out of his mouth. Are we not judging them by different scales here, if we don't know what's in president Trump's heart and judging what comes out of his mouth, what"
CARDONA: "Trump has a 50 year history of not just comments but of policies that are out and out racist. We can judge him on what he has said and done for 50 years. If congresswoman Omar doesn't learn from this, yes, she will have to answer to being anti-semitic and what that means. My hope is is that --"