‘All Of A Sudden You’re Concerned’: GOP Rep, CNN Host Tussle Over Potentially Using Military To Acquire Greenland

Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill sparred with CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Wednesday over potentially using the military in order for the U.S. to acquire Greenland.

President-elect Donald Trump has expressed interest in the U.S. purchasing Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark, and did not rule out using military force to acquire the land during a Tuesday press conference at Mar-a-Lago. As Keilar asked Gill about the possibility of using the military, the Republican congressman called out Democrats for allegedly allowing the U.S. to become less safe throughout President Joe Biden’s administration.

“You were born on a military base, you know you were a military kid … do you support Americans fighting, which always means potentially dying, for the U.S. to acquire Greenland or the Panama Canal?” Keilar asked.

“It’s really funny that you bring that up, I’m gonna leave the methodology to President Trump and follow his lead here, but Democrats have made the world a much less safer place over the past four years,” Gill replied. “We’ve had over a half-a-million people die in the war in Ukraine that never would have happened if President Trump was in the White House. It’s amazing to me, that all of a sudden you’re concerned about people dying in wars when a weak foreign policy under President Joe Biden is the reason that the entire world has erupted in chaos.”

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Keilar argued her concern about the deaths of military personnel is “not sudden,” and demanded that the freshman congressman answer her questions. Gill said Trump is “leaving options on the table” that he will make decisions on when he enters office.

The president-elect has also expressed