Dem Candidate In Hot Water Legally After Making Sick Comment About Trump

A CNN commentator and self-styled political candidate is facing intense scrutiny after he falsely claimed that President Donald Trump was part of a “sex-trafficking network” during a panel discussion.

The comment was made by Cameron Kasky, a Parkland shooting survivor who received national recognition as a gun control activist. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, he joined classmates like David Hogg and a handful of others in becoming a national spokesman for gun control.

In one infamous moment, Kasky bizarrely told then-Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) during a town hall discussion that it was impossible to look at him without seeing Rubio “shooting my classmates.”

After high school, Kasky attended Columbia University for several semesters but later dropped out. He primarily works as an activist and media personality who has identified as a democratic socialist and “queer.”

Most recently, Kasky jumped into a crowded Democratic Party primary field to replace the rating Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) in the Empire State’s 10th Congressional District.

On Tuesday evening, Kasky joined a panel discussion on CNN NewsNight to discuss current issues of the day. He repeatedly clashed with conservative commentator Scott Jennings, at one point telling him “you don’t get to say the word ‘illegals’ anymore,” during a discussion on illegal immigration.

“I don’t?” Jennings immediately shot back. “Who are you to tell me what I can and can’t say? I’ve never met you, brother. I can say whatever I want. They’re illegal aliens, and that’s what the law calls them. Illegal aliens, that’s what I’m gonna call them.”

Elsewhere in the discussion, Kasky placed himself in legal jeopardy by claiming that President Donald Trump is part of a “sex-trafficking ring.”

He appeared to be claiming that Trump was associated with notorious sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, an accusation that has been repeatedly debunked. There has never been any evidence of Trump remotely being involved with Epstein’s crimes,  while the case has been a hot news topic for the better part of a decade.

The president went so far as to ban Epstein from his Mar-A-Lago resort long before any accusations surfaced, while Epstein texted prominent Democrats, including former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, about his disdain for Trump on numerous occasions.

Epstein also texted U.S. Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) to influence her anti-Trump line of questioning during a congressional hearing.

Sensing that he would likely find himself in legal trouble, Kasky immediately took to X in order to apologize and retract his comments.

“I would like to retract my comments from CNN last night and truly apologize,” Kasky posted on X. “Donald Trump was obviously not involved with a giant international child sex trafficking ring where women and children were systematically raped by elites. “I said that by accident and didn’t mean it.”

Kasky is currently running for congress in what is arguably the most crowded primary field of the 2026 midterm cycle.  New York’s 10th Congressional District is overwhelmingly blue, meaning that the winner of the Democratic Party primary is practically certain to win the general election.

Other notable candidates include Assembly Member Micah Lasher, Nadler’s expected endorsee who is seen as his heir apparent, Assembly Member Alex Bores, and Jack Schlossberg, grandson of former President John F. Kennedy.

Additional contenders include civil rights lawyer Laura Dunn, journalist Jami Floyd, and most recently, longtime MSNBC analyst George Conway.

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