Don’t look for Phil Mudd to be joining the Trump anti-terrorism team anytime soon . . . Mudd, a CNN counterterrorism analyst, declared today that the threat of terrorism is “modest.” When it comes to young people, Mudd said that he worries about gangs and drugs: “I don’t worry about terrorism.”

Mudd also argued that tight restrictions on Muslim immigration would be giving ISIS want it wants by setting ISIS up as the counterbalance to the West and the defender of Islam. Mudd apparently believes that allowing a freer flow of Muslim refugees into the United States, as Hillary wanted, would appease ISIS rather than giving it the opening to carry out more attacks. ISIS is not interested in good relations. It wants only to destroy the West and establish its caliphate. People like Mudd, whom CNN chooses as its “expert,” apparently don’t understand that.



Mudd adopts a dry statistical approach, arguing that gangs and drugs cause more American deaths than terrorism. But as bad as is the opiod plague, it does not pose the same kind of convulsive threat to the very fabric of our nation and culture as does Islamic terrorism.

Note: Co-host Camerota teed up Mudd’s message against tight immigration restrictions. Rather than asking whether such restrictions are desirable, she claimed to have heard that they “do more harm than good” and invited Mudd to explain why.