{"id":1978,"date":"2026-06-20T13:07:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:07:52","slug":"cnn-host-tramples-maga-lawmakers-phony-claims-to-her-face-in-live-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"CNN host tramples MAGA lawmaker\u2019s phony claims to her face in live interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump\u2019s loyal Republican lawmakers don\u2019t often get corrected to their face when they play fast and loose with the facts, but CNN Saturday morning anchor Victor Blackwell had no such patience for MAGA Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.).<\/p>\n

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Blackwell derailed Luna\u2019s talking points at the start of the interview after watching her try to explain President Donald Trump calling his Iran Memorandum of Understanding a \u201cwin\u201d despite it letting Iran keep missiles that Trump claimed he specifically invaded to remove.<\/p>\n

But Luna argued that Trump\u2019s agreement is better because Iran will voluntarily dispose of its missiles out of necessity. \u201cI don’t think that they’re going to need ballistic missiles,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWait a minute. Why wouldn’t why wouldn’t they need ballistic missiles?\u201d Blackwell demanded.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I think that they’re not going to need to have to engage in war activities as they did previously,\u201d she answered.<\/p>\n

\u201cSay again? What do you base that on?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

Luna argued the new Iranian administration would instead be \u201ctrying to open up and maybe establishing better relationships with countries that they typically wouldn’t have.\u201d<\/p>\n

The interview then spiraled when the MAGA firebrand made repeated claims that former president Obama was giving Iran \u201cpallets of money\u201d in his old JCPOA agreement with Iran \u2014 completely unlike the pallets of money President Donald Trump has agreed to fork over in his own controversial, and much panned, MOU agreement with Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re not paying the Iranians to mothball their nuclear program. They have agreed fully and in writing and signed it, that they will not ever have a nuclear weapon. And I think that that’s the biggest thing,\u201d Luna claimed <\/p>\n

\u201cBut that was also part of the JCPOA,\u201d Blackwell countered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it wasn’t signed and it wasn’t in writing and it wasn’t codified by the United Nations,\u201d she insisted. <\/p>\n

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The [International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)], conducted the inspections to determine up until the point that President Trump withdrew the U.S.,\u201d Blackwell pointed out, adding that Iran had also been \u201cin compliance with the elements of the JCPOA.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shouldn’t be paying Iran to mothball a program, period,\u201d Luna repeated. \u201cI don’t want any of our taxpayer dollars going over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay. But they weren’t taxpayer dollars going to Iran under the JCPOA,\u201d Blackwell said, interrupting her. \u201c[T]he $1.7 billion was their money that was returned to them with interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not be paying Iran, sending pallets of cash. Nothing over there, period,\u201d Luna said more forcefully.<\/p>\n

At that, Blackwell played her footage of Trump admitting the \u201cwe have taken a lot of their money, and we have their money. We have taken their money. It’s not our money. It’s their money. And we froze it at a certain point in time. I guess we’re going to have to give it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so what’s the difference between the JCPOA returning the $1.7 billion that was Iran\u2019s money and President Trump there saying that at some point, the U.S. will have to give back their money?\u201d Blackwell said.<\/p>\n

Caught in a philosophical tangle, Luna fell back on: \u201cwe should have never sent pallets of cash over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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