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Do you not understand what specifically he was commemorating?

Do you not understand what specifically he was commemorating?

As we recently covered all of the outlets and pundits who are now ensnared in the Platner-Nazi paradox, we need to add Audie Cornish to the list. She was, after all, covering the candidate last month and worked to downplay and sidestep his rather Reich-ian leanings. But this did not stop her from invoking the charge for others.

This weekend, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was commemorating D-Day. Audie and her guests were not happy that during his speech, Hegseth mentioned how European countries were allowing another invasion these days, involving illegal immigrants. What had them bothered was his injecting politics into a remembrance, as they saw it, but Ms. Cornish took it further:

I thought it was weird to talk invasion or use language that, like, I don't know, Nazis would have used about people invading the homeland. It felt like a sort of dissonance there.

I thought it was weird to talk invasion or use language that, like, I don't know, Nazis would have used about people invading the homeland. It felt like a sort of dissonance there.

It does feel odd to have to inform a network news hostess of the details of that historic date, yet here we are. Audie, D-Day was about the Allied forces taking back territory that the Nazis had previously invaded. The Nazis were the invaders, so their homeland was not an issue; ergo, there was nothing about Hegseth’s comments that echoed the Nazis in any capacity.

On Monday's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish likened part of Sec. Pete Hegseth's Normandy D-Day remembrance speech to language that "Nazis would have used" after Hegseth mentioned European immigration issues. pic.twitter.com/SxTHEfFYWu— Nick (@nspin310) June 8, 2026

On Monday's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish likened part of Sec. Pete Hegseth's........

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