Tapper posts gif after exchange with Moore aide: ‘The Mo’ You Know’

CNN anchor Jake Tapper posted a “The Mo’ You Know” gif Tuesday night after interviewing a campaign aide for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore who fell silent after being told that the Christian Bible is not the only book that can be used under U.S. law to swear an elected official into office.

“John Quincy Adams took the oath of office with his hand not on a Bible but on a book of constitutional law,” Tapper tweeted along with the gif.

John Quincy Adams took the oath of office with his hand not on a Bible but on a book of constitutional law. pic.twitter.com/YKN5aFkAOx

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 12, 2017

During an interview hours earlier on CNN’s “The Lead,” Moore spokesman Ted Crockett tried to defend the former Alabama judge’s past comments that Muslims cannot serve in Congress because they cannot “ethically” be sworn in using a Bible.

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Crockett rebuffed Tapper’s point that “you can swear on anything really,” saying he has sworn on a Bible three times. 

“I’m sure you have. I’m sure you’ve picked a Bible. But the law is not that you have to swear on a Christian Bible. That is not the law,” Tapper went on, at which point Crockett remained silent.

Moore previously took issue with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim elected into Congress, swearing in on a copy of the Quran owned by Thomas Jefferson.