Anderson Cooper Confronts Florida’s Anti-Gay Attorney General Live On CNN

Attorney General Pam Bondi can't explain her sudden change in attitude toward LGBTs.
From: NewNowNext

 Anderson Cooper confronted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi over her history of extreme anti-LGBT views and actions during a live report on CNN, calling her sudden push to be a so-called ’champion for the LGBT community’ in the wake of the Orlando massacre “hypocritical.”

Bondi shifts in place and struggles to address Anderson’s specific questions throughout the five-minute interview below, which mainly addresses her aggressive push to ban same-sex marriage in Florida back in 2014.

Her attitude toward the LGBT community was markedly different on Sunday, though, when she announced to the public that “anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after to the fullest extent of the law.”

 “You said in court that gay people simply by fighting for marriage equality, were trying to do harm to the people of Florida, to ’induce public harm,’ I believe is the term you used in court. Do you really think that you’re a champion of the gay community?” Anderson asked.

Stunned, Bondi dishes a packaged answer about protecting the Florida’s constitution in lieu of confronting her anti-LGBT history on camera.

“Anderson, I don’t believe gay people could do harm to the state of Florida,” she responded, even though Cooper quickly points out that, at the time, she did “argue that in court.”

At the interview’s peak, Anderson asks Bondi if she recognizes the “sick irony” in her sudden change of tune:

“Had there been no gay marriage, no same-sex marriage, you do realize that spouses, there would be no spouses, that boyfriends and girlfriends of the dead would not be able to get information and would not be able to call or visit in the hospital here. Isn’t there a sick irony in that?”

Gays everywhere shared a unanimous reaction:

Bondi dodges facts about her anti-gay history for the rest of the interview before proclaiming, as if it makes her an ally, that her website had been updated “two rainbow-colored hands clasped together.”

That claim has since been proven false.

Below, watch Pam Bondi squirm while Anderson Cooper absolutely destroys her: