CNN political commentator Angela Rye compared former President Barack Obama to Jesus on Monday evening.

Rye made the comparison while discussing the investigation into alleged links between President Donald Trump's campaign and the Russian government, as well as Trump's accusation that the Obama administration wiretapped him.

"If this would have been under the Obama administration, there would be no end to this," Rye said. "Barack Obama had to be the next best thing to Jesus, and here we are just two months in and some change there is issue after issue."

"Maybe it's not Russian collusion, maybe its collusion with the intel committee chair. But it's highly problematic," she added.

As Newsbusters notes, Rye, a former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, began making her point by discussing racism on "Anderson Cooper 360."

"We're talking about Donald Trump once again throwing a story line instead of talking about missing D.C. girls, instead of us talking about a white supremacist that killed a black man and had plans to kill more black people just because of who they were," Rye said.

"Instead of talking about the health care debacle, we're talking about something that didn't happen that your president can't even spell, ‘tap,'" she said to conservative members of the show's panel. "I'm directing that to anybody else besides me."