On Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, during a discussion of President Donald Trump's response to the recent targeting of Jewish sites, liberal CNN commentators Kirsten Powers and Errol Louis -- as well as host Anderson Cooper -- all had a problem with Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci recently reminding the media that no one knows whether the culprits are Democrats or Republicans. And reacting to Scaramucci recalling that Democrats were sent to disrupt Trump events, Louis even referred to the story as a "nonexistent conspiracy" and a "conspiracy theory."
Recalling Scaramucci's tweet on the matter, Powers fretted that he was suggesting Democrats are behind the anti-Semitic crimes as well: "But, look, even what, you know, Anthony Scarmucci was saying even in his sort of cleanup still is like, the idea that, you know, he just said it because people are making accusations, so then he just made some false accusation against Democrats. I mean, he actually was suggesting that Democrats were probably doing this."
Host Cooper agreed: "Right, you don't link two -- I mean, Errol, you don't link two separate ideas unless you are actually making comparison between those ideas."
Louis then made his own claim that reports of Democrats being sent to disrupt Trump events was a "nonexistent conspiracy" as he chimed in:
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That's right. And we should note, for the record, that it was a reference to a sort of a nonexistent conspiracy of Democrats to foment violence at rallies earlier in the campaign season. So this is, you know, this is the kind of messaging that, if they want the glow from last night to really last, they're going to have to get ahold of that.
He then referred to "conspiracy theories" as he added: "They're going to have to sort of reign people in, stop with the Twitter and the back and forth, and the conspiracy theories, and try to sort of have a consistent message."
But even the favorite liberal fact-checking group, Politifact, conceded that there was at least some reason to believe the claims could be true.
Notably, several weeks ago, Louis misinformed CNN viewers by repeating a hoax claim that an Iraqi woman died because she was unable to enter the country for medical treatment because of President Trump's travel ban.
