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Republican strategist's attempt to minimize former President Donald Trump's threat of "enemies within" spurred a swift fact check and heated debate on CNN Monday morning.
Conservative commentator Shermichael Singleton was checked by CNN anchor Jim Acosta as he tried to claim Trump's threat to sic the military on political enemies was limited only to those who live in the U.S. without citizenship status.
"I think he's talking about immigration," Singleton said. "And when you look at—"
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"No, no, no," interrupted Acosta. "He was talking about what he called radical left people in this country. Americans. Political opponents."
Singleton shrugged off what Acosta described as a "dangerous" threat — arguing Republicans cared more about policy than rhetoric — and in doing so outraged Democratic strategist Julia Roginsky.
"Let me just say something right now," Roginsky said. "This is not Donald Trump saying crazy stuff...he's done this before."
Roginsky argued Trump meant what he said at a Coachella rally over the weekend that he'd bully Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) into supporting his border control policies by threatening to withhold "fire money....for all the forest fires."
She pointed to recent reports from two former staffers who said Trump tried to block wildfire relief from reaching California in 2018 until he was shown voter data proving supporters lived there and raised a crucial concern.
"There were people around him [during his first term] to stop the worst impulses...they're not going to be there this time around," she said. "He's basically letting the voters know that, you know, this is what you're voting for."
When Acosta asked if Democrats needed to do more to call out Trump's authoritarian rhetoric, Roginsky replied with an incredulous shake of the head and a figurative finger pointed at his industry.
"The media has not done enough to call this out," Roginsky snapped back. "Here you have a fascist — and General Milley is right because all of the markers of a fascist exist in Donald Trump — and yet our news media has not done enough, by any stretch of the imagination, to call this out."
As proof, Roginsky pointed to intense media scrutiny of President Joe Biden's age and Gov. Tim Walz' (D-MN) location during the Tiananmen Square protests 35 years ago.
Singleton, given a chance to respond, interestingly did not slap back with a defense of his political party — but of colleagues in the media he argued could not be blamed for focusing more important issues than Trump's rhetoric.
"We have covered it," he said. "i just think there are far more consequential issues that impact people's day-to-day lives."
"With all do respect," Roginsky replied, "Take a look at the ratio. This is an existential problem."
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CNN's Kate Bolduan clashed with a conservative commentator over the role of experts in government.
More than 75 past Nobel Prize winners sent an open letter Monday to the U.S. Senate opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, saying his lack of credentials and unconventional views on medical science "would put the public's health in jeopardy."
Bolduan asked conservative pundit Shermichael Singleton to comment.
"These aren't elites, though," Bolduan said. "I mean, these are world-renowned leaders in fields like medicine, chemistry, economics and physics. They include the men who were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of microRNA. My thing about this is, I get we we are all very clear on what it feels like to, you know, play politics with whatever, but when did we start to stop listening to people who are actual experts on things?"
Singleton disagreed with the premise of her question, saying those experts had elite pedigrees, and he argued that their assumptions should be challenged by others outside their areas of expertise.
"Sure, I have respect for people who spent a lot of time mastering something and moving the needle forward in terms of our understanding of sort of rare or complex disciplines," Singleton said. "I think that that matters for us as a nation and for the world.
"However, let's look at some of the facts as it pertains to our health care system – 40.3 percent of Americans, according to the CDC, are obese. That number has increased since 2011. The United States, according to the same data, ranks 34th in terms of our health care system."
Bolduan cut him off, saying that Kennedy and other vaccine skeptics were putting American children at risk, and Singleton argued that scientific experts got some things wrong during the coronavirus pandemic.
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"A lot of the rhetoric that we heard from many of the same experts during the Covid pandemic, where now you have millions of American kids who are significantly behind academically, they're going to struggle to catch up with the rest of the world, who are leaps and bounds ahead of us, and we listened to the experts," he said.
"Then we trusted the experts, then all I'm simply saying is, it's okay to ask questions. It's okay to have a healthy dose of skepticism."
Singleton continued to argue that Kennedy's promised challenges to assumptions about public health were valid because so many Americans were unhealthy, but Bolduan argued that many of the topics the Donald Trump nominee had promised to investigate were not considered to be controversial by scientists.
"You can ask lots of questions, and questioning Covid lockdowns is one thing," Bolduan said. "What is not in question is how many lives have actually been saved by things like the measles vaccine, the polio vaccine. What has happened, and that is what I'm getting at, because you're adding two things together.
"Lots of people can question how experts handled an unfolding pandemic in front of all of us. It's one thing to deny the data from decades of how many lives have been saved from vaccines that children do not suffer from, and what it would mean if that skepticism and the questions we're suggesting are out there, then start getting into the mindset of millions of Americans, once again, led by someone who has not only been a skeptic of vaccines, is a cynic of vaccines."
Singleton insisted that he was not personally denying the effectiveness of vaccines, but Bolduan seemed frustrated by his line of argument.
"These things, these are like apples and oranges, like questioning Covid lockdowns and saying, but, like, that's a good question to have," Bolduan said, as a producer urged her to end the segment for a commercial break. "But also maybe you should question vaccines because that's what's being added together. All right, clearly we've got to go because they're about to cut my mic. Guys, thank you so much."
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Shermichael Singleton is a political consultant, writer, commentator, and former Contributing Host of Vox Media’s Consider It, a current affairs digital show that aired weekly on Facebook Watch. He is also a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree for Law and Policy for his contributions to politics and media.
As a political operative, he has worked on the presidential campaigns of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich where he focused on youth outreach and engagement. From there he went on to work on former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in campaign operations and coalitions where he traveled the country during the 2012 election. During the 2015 and 2016 cycle, he worked on the presidential campaign of renowned Neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson where he was the faith coalitions advisor tasked with targeting and building coalitions within the faith community, which would become Dr. Carson’s strongest base of support. As a result, Dr. Carson became the only candidate to surpass President Trump in polls for several straight weeks during the 2016 campaign cycle.
In addition to his work on political campaigns, he was an opposition researcher for America Rising, LLC where he did opposition research for several Republican candidates running for Congress and the United States Senate.
Beyond politics, he also worked with Florida based non-profit Lauren’s Kids, which focuses on raising awareness about child sexual abuse. During his time with Lauren’s Kids, he was a part of a team of former political operatives who worked on a state wide bus tour across Florida to raise awareness for this very important issue.
When Dr. Carson ended his bid for the presidency, he appointed Shermichael as his director of communications, where he would manage all communications for the former presidential candidate.
As Dr. Carson’s top aide during the presidential transition process, Shermichael played a pivotal role in successfully guiding Dr. Carson through the Senate confirmation process. Subsequently, he was appointed to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), where he was sworn in as the Deputy Chief of Staff, the youngest ever appointed to the role in the history of the agency. After his stint at HUD, Shermichael went on to become a CNN Political Commentator.
He now appears weekly on MSNBC where he offers political analysis.
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, he studied Political Science at Morehouse College and Government and Politics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Trump has supported policies that even the most traditional Republicans would such as tax reform, deregulation and strengthening the military, he says. But Singleton started questioning if Trump’s policies justify his behavior and character as an individual — and concluded that they don’t.
The values the president maintains are not consistent with what Singleton believes conservatism should or can be, he says.
“To be a conservative has to be more than just passing a piece of legislation here or there,” he says. “There has to be a certain level of temperament associated with it. There has to be a certain way of being the way one carries him or herself, the way they treat others, the way they view the world.”
Singleton had to change his phone number after making his announcement. While most of his friends knew about his dilemma for some time and have been supportive, he’s spoken with the few people who were upset.
“I respect your right to support the president. I would hope you respect my right to disagree with the president,” he says. “The party is just going in a direction that I'm just not comfortable with.”
A new Gallup poll this week shows the president's approval rating at 38%, but that it also went up in the past month among Republicans from 85% to 91%. Republican support for the president is increasing because the country is segmented by tribalism, he says.
Trump’s overall support is decreasing because Independents who voted for him in 2016 are growing concerned, Singleton says.
Middle-of-the-road voters supported Trump because they wanted to see something different in Washington or for legislators to pass policies such as deregulation, he says. But now, he says these people are questioning whether these things are worth dividing the country, increasing racial tensions and decreasing morale from a lack of leadership.
The president will need to win these people’s votes in November if he wants to stay in the White House. While he hopes the party’s recent paradigm shift is temporary, Singleton thinks the upcoming election could shape the future of the GOP.
“I think if the president wins in November, he will have permanently shifted the Republican Party into his brand of what Republicanism is,” he says.
If Trump loses, Singleton predicts a reckoning for the party.
Many people who voted for Trump in 2016 were not traditional Republican voters — nor traditional voters at all. These people came out to the polls in 2016 to vote for Trump, so if he loses in 2020, these voters will dissipate, Singleton says.
This would give the GOP a chance to reset itself, he says, though the party would also need to sell many different groups of people on its ideology to move forward.
While he doesn’t want to share how he plans to vote in November, Singleton respects former Vice President Joe Biden as a man of character despite disagreeing on some policies.
If Biden beats Trump, that would allow the GOP to restart — which is necessary for the party’s long-term survival, he says.
“On the alternative, if [Biden] does not win and President Trump does win, then all of my concerns, all of my fears will really become actualized,” he says, “as I do not think that there will be a party for me to return to.”
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Shermichael Singleton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1991, and, while studying at Morehouse College in Atlanta, he worked on Newt Gingrich's Republican presidential bid as a youth organizer. In 2012, he worked on Mitt Romney's successful Republican presidential primary campaign, and he later worked on campaigns in Georgia and Florida. After working for the nonprofit Lauren's Kids in Florida, he joined America Rising LLC as a field opposition researcher. During Ben Carson's 2016 presidential bid, Singleton served as his Coalitions Advisor, and he served as Carson's Director of Communications after Carson conceded to Donald Trump. He went on to become Deputy Chief of Staff of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under Carson, but he was fired by Trump after an article surfaced in which Singleton challenged then-candidate Trump. Singleton was then hired as a CNN political commentator, where he continued to criticize Trump and what he saw as his inauthentic Republicanism. During the 2024 presidential election, Singleton criticized Trump's racist attacks on Kamala Harris and his hostility towards Black journalists at a National Association of Black Journalists conference.
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A political appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development was fired for an op-ed he wrote before the election that criticized then-candidate Donald Trump, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
In an October op-ed for The Hill, Republican consultant Shermichael Singleton said Trump was taking the Republican Party to a “new moral low.”
“We allowed that hostile takeover to happen on our watch,” he wrote. “This individual recognized a moment of great disparity in the Republican base and, like cancer, attacked and spread, consuming everything in his path.”
Singleton’s piece criticized Trump’s rhetoric about African Americans during the campaign. After the election, the 26-year-old worked with Ben Carson during his confirmation process to become HUD secretary. Singleton, who is African American, then joined the department as a senior adviser.
But on Wednesday, he was brought into the chief of staff’s office and fired, the source familiar with the situation told CNN. Singleton was told he was being dismissed because of the op-ed and was escorted from the building, according to the source, who also said Carson was surprised by the move and only learned of it after the fact.
A HUD spokesperson confirmed Singleton no longer works at the department.
Singleton declined to comment. The White House and the HUD chief of staff didn’t respond to CNN’s request for comment.
News of Singleton’s dismissal was first reported by The New York Times.
Singleton expressed concerns in his pre-election op-ed about Trump’s approach to addressing issues of high concern to many black American voters.
“Hearing the nominee of my party ignore these harsh truths and opt for words like ‘law and order’ sounds like a coded message from an era in our history that should stay in the past,” Singleton wrote.
Trump has been repeatedly criticized for his rhetoric when discussing the black American urban experience and for mainly discussing inner cities when talking about black people.
“Donald Trump portrays our inner cities is as if they are the ailments of American society and should be exterminated and swiftly removed,” Singleton wrote in the op-ed. “He never mentions the many hardworking, good and honest people who are simply trying the best they can to achieve their share of the American dream.”
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