‘You damn well know that! DNC Vice Chair David Hogg tries to play tough guy on air with ex-RNC-chair. How adorable.

Amid his latest double down on primaries, David Hogg’s top popped over his party getting called out for “digging [their] own hole” on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Losing arguments at length found the Democratic Party-complicit corporate media gladly lining up to lay cover with a narrative redirect toward due process over their ardent defense against the deportation of an illegal alien tied to MS-13.

While Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen was offered a platform on all the Sunday shows, the Democratic National Committee’s Vice Chair Hogg pouted with petulance against former Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus on Abrego Garcia as he sought permission to push back.

“This was not an MS-13 gang member and you damn well know that!”

The first White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, Priebus had been prompted by ABC News’ Jonathan Karl during the “This Week” panel on what a party might do to a vice chair launching a $20 million effort to primary its own members.

“Unfortunately, David, I’d have you removed from the party. Because I think — number one, I think you’re sincere. I don’t question that. I think you’re right. The Democrats are a complete mess. They have no movement,” began the former RNC chair.

“I don’t think that’s exactly what he said,” interjected Karl as Priebus continued, “Well, he said they’ve got no message. They’ve got no movement. They’ve got no leader. I mean, it doesn’t get any worse than that.”

“You’re defending Harvard. You’re traveling to El Salvador for MS-13 gang members. But here’s the point, you’re taking $20 million, if I’m looking at someone, my vice chair of the RNC, taking $20 million for another effort, it’s $20 million out of the DNC’s pocket. You can’t be on the board of the fishing and forest company and on Greenpeace at the same time,” he continued.

Seeking an opportunity to counter Priebus, Hogg spoke up, “Let me push back against that. This was not an MS-13 gang member and you damn well know that!”

“Oh come on!” came the reply as the failed pillow entrepreneur added, “He was not!”

“Keep defending this guy. You’re just digging your own hole,” asserted the onetime chief of staff as Hogg tried, “In America, we have due process … We are a land of law and order, and this administration is repeatedly showing time and time again, they do not care about what the Supreme Court says. They do not care about the rule of law. And you cannot defend sending people to another country where they don’t have rights.”

Leading up to the exchange, the DNC vice chair had told Karl on his push for primaries, “I think it’s going to be a hell of a lot harder for us to beat Republicans with a 27% approval rating where we cannot simply go out there and say, ‘Look, guys. We’re not Donald Trump, vote for us.’”

“We cannot just be the party that is against Donald Trump. We have to be a party that doesn’t have a 27% approval rating from our own base. That is not a survivable future,” DNC vice chair David Hogg says of his push to challenge incumbent House Democrats. https://t.co/DaDPijvbEu pic.twitter.com/K1rfpnOzsn

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“We need to show people the way that Democrats fight for democracy is by using democracy to revive the American dream, to help combat the rising costs of health care, of housing, of eldercare, of childcare and education, and, and making sure that we remember that our young people in particular, they are losing faith in our democracy and people of all ages because they feel like the American dream does not exist for them anymore,” he went on. “And the answer to that is using democracy with courageous Democrats that actually want to fight back against what’s happening.”

Meanwhile, as Van Hollen faced a potential ethics probe over allegations that his trip to El Salvador to defend Abrego Garcia had violated the Logan Act, Priebus added before getting cutoff by Karl, “He’s here illegally. The Intel community — every Intel community agency and the White House say he is a member of MS-13.”

As to Hogg’s plan for primaries, earlier in the program, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had said, “I look forward to standing behind every single Democratic incumbent, from the most progressive to the most centrist and all points in between.”

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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