Martha McSally Calls CNN Reporter a 'Liberal Hack'

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January 17, 2020 9:12 AM

WASHINGTON — It was a straightforward question being put to nearly every Republican senator in the Capitol on Thursday: Should the Senate consider new evidence as part of the impeachment trial?

Martha McSally Calls CNN Reporter a 'Liberal Hack'

But when Manu Raju of CNN, a well-respected congressional reporter, put it to Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona, a first-term Republican who is up for reelection this fall, she went on the attack.

“You’re a liberal hack,” she said. “I’m not talking to you. You’re a liberal hack.”

She posted a video of the exchange on Twitter, earning plaudits from President Donald Trump’s allies, including Fox News host Sean Hannity.

And @TrumpWarRoom, a Trump 2020 account, congratulated McSally — “THIS is how you handle FAKE NEWS,” the account wrote — and urged followers to donate to her reelection campaign.

Raju is well respected on Capitol Hill by members of both parties, and CNN said in a statement that it was “extremely unbecoming for a U.S. senator to sink to this level and treat a member of the press this way for simply doing his job.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times .

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