Just because Donald Trump was invited to host “Saturday Night Live” a few months ago doesn’t mean the show is above criticizing the Republican front-runner. Exhibit A: the following clip in which CNN’s Kate Bolduan (played by Kate McKinnon) speaks to a tea partyer who has a crazy justification for all of Trump’s abhorrent acts and statements (even his fictionalized ones).

Below you can watch the CNN clip that probably inspired the “SNL” skit.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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