An irritated Chris Cuomo on Wednesday bizarrely scoffed at the idea that keeping the illegal immigrant killer of Kate Steinle out of the country would have saved the young woman’s life. Cuomo also derided talking in a way that painted Jose Ines Garcia Zarate and others as monsters. While discussing Trump administration efforts to thwart illegal immigration, Cuomo complained: “But Kate Steinle has always been a gross misappropriation of the tragedy that ended her life. It doesn't meet with the facts of the situation.”

He then ridiculously insisted: “The facts of what happened to Katie Steinle only make sense on one level, which is ‘but for.’ But for that guy being in the country, when he shouldn't have been, she would have never died.”

How’s that work? If Garcia Zarate wasn’t illegally in the U.S., how could he have killed Steinle? After all, this is a man who had been deported five times Cuomo didn’t explain his logic and no one on the show pressed him to do so.

In fact, even the liberal Senator Dianne Feinstein disagrees with Cuomo. She wrote a letter in 2015 saying: “The tragic death of Ms. Steinle could have been avoided if the Sheriff's Department had notified ICE prior to the release of Mr. Sanchez [Zarate], which would have allowed ICE to remove him from the country.”

What really bothered Cuomo is the fact that this man is used as an argument against illegal immigration. The CNN anchor attacked “the idea of what he was painted as, there is a monster in our midst and so many just like him, the facts don't line up on it. And it’s always been a gross abuse of the situation.”

In January, Cuomo attacked the Trump administration for painting illegals as “monsters.”

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