CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings utterly destroyed a CNN panel that could not wrap their head around the fact President Donald Trump has authority to ban transgenders in the military.
During the Tuesday segment on CNN, the panel discussed Trump’s recent victory in the United States Supreme Court after SCOTUS ruled that the president could ban transgenders from being in the Armed Forces (at least for the time being), as RedState reported.
The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in lifting a lower court’s order that paused the Pentagon’s transgender military ban.
In a short order on Tuesday, the high court handed the White House win as Trump seeks to unmake the Biden-era diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agenda. The court stayed a lower court order, allowing the Pentagon policy to take effect. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the administration’s appeal and kept the lower court injunction in place.
CNN anchor Abby Phillip asked Jennings to defend the administration’s defense of the policy, which she said was by “allowing transgenders to serve it hurts lethality and it hurts readiness.”
“Well, it’s the opinion of the Commander in Chief, who, according to our Constitution, is the head of the military,” Jennings said, shutting down the idea of discrimination. “Regardless of anyone’s opinion … at some juncture, the president is the Commander in Chief of the military and he has and should have broad latitude to determine how the Armed Forces should be operated.”
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Several on the panel were upset about the ruling and said it was discrimination, as they conflated the idea of race and gender identity. Democrat strategist Julie Roginsky claimed that if Trump could ban people who identify as a different biological sex than the one they were born with, he could also ban black people or lesbians from serving.
Jennings noted how ridiculous the argument was and that race and transgender were not the same thing. Commentator Jemele Hill then handily helped prove his point about why transgenders should not be allowed to serve when she said “when you don’t protect the most vulnerable, you wind up making it worse for everybody…”
“Is it your position that the Commander in Chief should recruit people who you’re describing as vulnerable into the fighting force?” Jennings replied, proving Trump’s point.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth previously defended Trump’s sensible Defense Department policy based on President Trump’s Executive Order 14183 (Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness – The White House) that the military can no longer recruit transgenders and that transgenders are not eligible for retention in the military, RedState reported.
In February, Hegseth issued an order to remove transgenders from the Armed Forces. It read:
“Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria are paused, and all unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for Service members are paused.”
Jennings’ destruction over on CNN has been incredible, and at some point, one must wonder how much more they are willing to take after he’s won arguments from the left about things like deportation of illegal immigrants, the election, and Tesla terrorism.
Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.
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