Watch: Wasserman Schultz Says Trump a Bigger Threat Than Radical Islamic Jihad

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., startled a national TV audience Tuesday night when she argued that President 👤Donald Trump posed a greater danger to American values than radical Islamic jihad — a comparison that stopped the interviewer cold.

According to Fox News, the exchange unfolded during an appearance on NewsNation’s On Balance, where host Leland Vittert asked the congresswoman whether she believed Islamophobia or jihad was the bigger threat following the horrific attack that targeted Australian Jews over the weekend.

Rather than answer directly, Wasserman Schultz immediately pivoted.

“I think we have to focus, quite frankly, on, if we’re worried about the threat to American values, on the person who’s in the White House,” she said.

Vittert cut in, incredulous.

“Are you really going with that?” he asked.

“Yeah, I’m going there,” she fired back. “Because we have a president who has completely undermined our democracy.”

The tense back-and-forth continued as Vittert pressed whether jihad itself posed a clear danger. Wasserman Schultz rejected the idea that it could be viewed through a single lens.

“What I don’t see is it as a single lens problem,” she said. “We have a president who has been determined to undermine our constitutional principles, to degrade our democracy, to divide instead of unite US