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Judging by Chris Cuomo’s comical stage-directed meltdown on CNN Wednesday night, you’d have thought President Trump had pardoned unrepentant terrorists, people who’d aided the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, traitors, or entire armies of bad actors. Note: he didn’t.
Cuomo’s TDS-infused rant about the president’s recent moves, including the newest pardons, was delivered with his typically unhinged, I’ll-jump-over-the-desk-and-strangle-you style. Cuomo didn’t need stage lighting—his for-the-cameras incandescent fauxrage was enough to show the rant for what it was: just another Wednesday-night Olbermann-lite monologue. The only thing missing was a “You, sir … ”