CNN’s Abby Phillip Claps Back at Conservative Radio Host Who Called Her Show ‘Not Smart’ and ‘Deeply Ignorant’ After Discussion About Trump’s Plan to Deploy Military Troops on U.S. Soil

Conservative radio host Erick Erickson went after CNN anchor Abby Phillip, torching her prime-time news program as “preening and often deeply ignorant” in a scathing critique on social media. The RedState founder took issue with the tagline of Phillip’s show “Newsnight with Abby Phillip” that says Phillip “delivers a smart, sharp approach to the day’s biggest stories” before appraising the show as “an embarrassment” to CNN and using the program’s Tuesday night panel discussion as a basis for his argument. Abby Phillip attends Glamour Women of the Year at Times Square EDITION Hotel on October 08, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Glamour) “Last night, the round table again piled on Scott Jennings because the panelists claimed Donald Trump wanted to use the American military to round up American citizens. Trump has not said that. His comments have been about illegal aliens,” Erickson wrote on X. Later adding, “In fact, Abby Phillip again tried to correct Scott Jennings and, again, was wrong. She went back to Trump’s consideration of calling out the National Guard after the 2020 riots, but that was something Tom Cotton advocated for in the New York Times that Trump did not...