CNN’s Smerconish Responds to Viewer Accusing Him of Defending Trump: ‘It’s Not a Defense; I’m Sitting Here and I’m Calling Balls and Strikes’

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SMERCONISH: "All right. Social media reaction now from the rest of you, what do we have, your weekly defense? Is that what that word is supposed to be? And protection of Trump is disgusting. He‘s a wannabe dictator, period. Geez, I can only imagine what you think, then, of Bill Maher having treated Trump civilly at a dinner at the White House. It‘s not a defense. I‘m sitting here and I'm calling balls and strikes. I've been plenty critical of him and will continue to do exactly that."