CNN Contributor: Mike Pence Is A 'Christian Supremacist'

If impeaching Trump is the ultimate goal of the liberal media, fearmongering about a Mike Pence presidency must already be on their minds. That seemed to be the goal of CNN Tuesday when the network had on one of the authors of a new unflattering book about the Vice President on both New Day and CNN Newsroom August 28, to gush about how Pence was really a “Christian supremacist” that all Americans should be worried about.

Michael D’Antonio, who is also a CNN contributor, co-authored the book, Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence, and explained to New Day host John Berman that Pence had been gearing up to become President even before he joined the administration. The author characterized the Vice President as eager and ready to take over as president if something happened to Trump. “[E]veryday Mike Pence imagines he’s one day closer to the Oval Office,” he gushed.

After Berman noted that it wasn’t unusual for a politician to have ambitions of the presidency, he asked D’Antonio about the most salacious quote from the book, where he called Pence the first “Christian supremacist” who could become President.

Berman pressed, “Now he’s not the first committed Christians to be anywhere near the White House. I mean there have been a lot of deeply religious figures there.” But a defensive D’Antonio doubled down on his claim, saying that Pence put his religion above his politics and that was frightening:

“I think he's a very divisive figure. He would like to impose a religiously inspired politics on our country that means rolling back marriage equality, it means a ban on abortion, a whole host of policies that are religiously driven. He's very upfront about that,” he ranted. Berman surprisingly pushed back again, saying that religious beliefs and political views often intersect. D’Antonio then claimed that Pence believed those who didn’t share his Christian beliefs were going to Hell and that was a shocking thing to hear from a President.