Obama official Susan Rice tells Snoop Dogg to ‘back the **** off’ Gayle King
SUSAN Rice issued a stern warning to Snoop Dogg after he seemingly threatened journalist Gayle King: “back the f**k off.”
The former US national security advisor ripped the rapper for slandering the “CBS This Morning” co-anchor over a recent interview she did that broached the topic of Kobe Bryant’s rape case.
“This is despicable. Gayle King is one of the most principled, fair and tough journalists alive. Snoop, back the **** off,” she tweeted Friday.
“You come for @GayleKing, you come against an army.
“You will lose, and it won’t be pretty.”
Rice served President Barack Obama as national security advisor from 2013 to 2017 and as the US representative to the United Nations.
Her comments follow an interview between King and former WNBA star Lisa Leslie in which she brought up the charges against Bryant in his 2003 rape civil case that was ultimately settled out of court.
“Respect the family and back off – before we come get you,” Snoop Dogg says in the video.
He also called King a “funky, dog-haired b***h” and a “punk motherf***er” before accusing her of “tarnishing” Bryan’s reputation.
During the sit-down, King asks Leslie: “It has been said that his legacy is complicated because of a sexual assault charge that was dismissed in 2003, 2004. Is it complicated for you as a woman, as a WNBA player?”
“It’s not complicated for me at all,” Leslie responds.
“I just never see – have ever seen him being the kind of person that would be – do something to violate a woman or be aggressive in that way.”
King herself has criticized the network for airing what she claims was a heavily-edited version of the interview, without her knowledge.
“Unbeknownst to me, my network put up a clip from a very wide-ranging interview – totally taken out of context – and when you see it that way, it’s very jarring,” explained King in an Instagram video she shared on Thursday.
“I know that if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I’d be extremely angry with me too.”
Oprah Winfrey tearfully revealed her best friend has been receiving death threats since the controversial interview aired.
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The media mogul said on the Today show that King “is not doing well” and that she hadn’t slept in two days because of the “misogynistic” and “vitriolic” about she received.
Gayle was notably absent from CBS This Morning Friday as the controversy continued.
The night before, she introduced Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at a criminal justice reform event hosted by JP Morgan in Miami.
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