Charles Barkley Asks Maggie Haberman ‘Do You Ever Get Sick And Tired’ Covering Trump Trials/Chaos Instead of Issues
CNN host Charles Barkley asked New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman if she ever gets “sick and tired” of covering former President Donald Trump‘s criminal trials and chaotic presence rather than “issues.”
On this week’s edition of CNN’s King Charles, co-hosts Gayle King and Charles Barkley asked Haberman for her insights on Trump, beginning with his comments at a campaign rally Tuesday.
Later in the interview, Barkley asked Haberman about the many criminal trials Trump is facing, and asked if there’s a personal toll from constant attention to Trump’s troubles at the expense of more substantive issues:
BARKLEY: Between all these cases, how is he going to navigate running for president and I mean because even if you’re not on trial you say you got one trial, but you still have all these motions where you’re supposed to be there. How is he going to navigate all this?
HABERMAN: It’s a great question. And right now there’s again still this one trial starts on April 15th. It’s expected to last probably about eight weeks, you know give or take a little bit of time then it rolls right into the convention. Then it rolls into the Democratic Convention, and then the fall election. And so, the big open question is, will there be a federal trial related to his efforts to subvert the transfer of power in 2020? Will that happen in the fall? It seems less and less likely.
KING: He seems to be very successful in delay, delay. That tactic is really working for him, is it not?
HABERMAN: Absolutely, that has been their strategy the whole time and it’s been very, very effective. And we are seeing it play out on multiple levels. So, I’m not sure that he will have to navigate multiple trials. He has the one and that’s and that is going to be a lot. But that is still going to be done, we expect by June.
BARKLEY: Do you ever just get sick and tired of being sick and tired and like —
HABERMAN: I get tired a lot.
BARKLEY: I don’t know because election is supposed to be like well, let’s talk about inflation. Let’s talk about immigration Let’s talk about what happened to why with the fires and everything. You know, like real issues, do you ever just get like can we just actually talk about issues instead of I don’t even want to talk about Stormy. I don’t want to talk about hush payments.
You know, I don’t want to talk about election deniers I don’t want to talk about January the 6th. You ever just get mentally — first of all, it might be good for your job. But you ever just like can we just talk about issues?
HABERMAN: Well, I think my personal thing is that folks in my life want to talk about politics as their side game and that’s all I do, all day long. So, for me, I don’t that’s not that’s never a break when people think that that’s my side conversation.
Look, this is an election that we have never seen anything like this before. We have a former president on trial for the first time — criminally indicted for the first time. And so, it’s a remarkable moment in history and we are all covering something that is historic. But it is — it is a very, very bracing moment for the country. There is no question.
Watch above via CNN’s King Charles.
