Throughout his closing argument, Monday, CNN host Chris Cuomo made a series of ridiculous statements as he pushed for impeachment. Not surprisingly, the TV personality trashed congressional Republicans who have not voted to impeach the President for “ignoring their oath.” Cuomo also attempted to accuse the GOP of acting like the “Deep State,” a concept that he would otherwise have contempt for.

Cuomo spent the first part of the monologue declaring victory over the Inspector General report on FISA abuse leading up to the Trump-Russia probe, proclaiming: “No more hoax. No more witch hunt.” Cuomo also accused President Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr of “trashing our government without cause.”

After arguing that “the ‘Deep State, they spied on us’ riff from Trump & Co., the toxic hoax hype...should be dead,” Cuomo declared that “Trump & Co. are actually now acting like the deep state that they defined wrongly.” He went on to trash Barr by claiming that “his goal is to put stink on his agency, undermine the institution openly in an obvious political fashion just to advance a political preference.”

The CNN host concluded that “This POTUS is better represented in these proceedings than any other President ever in an impeachment” before reminiscing about the good old days back when President Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno appointed a Special Counsel to investigate her boss and “initiated the Independent Counsel statute.” Cuomo favorably contrasted Reno with Barr, whom he described as “more like his personal attorney.”

In addition to holding up Reno as a model Attorney General, Cuomo whined that “Clinton had Democrats go bad on him” by voting to impeach him. Cuomo quickly corrected himself in an effort to conceal his liberal bias: “That’s not fair. They did their duty, and they voted against him, twice, to initiate the proceeding, and on articles of impeachment. He had 31 say, ‘Yeah, let’s do this,’ and five say, ‘Yeah, he should be impeached.’”

At this point, a disheartened Cuomo wondered why congressional Republicans could not be more like Democrats in the Clinton era; complaining that “this President has his whole party in Congress ignoring their oath and arguing his side; not once but twice.” Going back to painting Clinton as a victim, Cuomo contended that while “Clinton had them go bad on him twice,” Trump has “had them go bad on their oath twice.”

A transcript of the relevant portion of Monday’s edition of Cuomo Prime Time is below. Click “expand” to read more.