CNN Anchor Calls BS On Trump ‘Moving On’ From Jan 6 After Pardons: ‘I’ll Believe It When I See It!’

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt called BS when someone said maybe President Donald Trump will “move on” from January 6 after his blanket pardons, saying “I’ll believe it when I see it!”

The media spent most of Monday covering every moment of Trump’s inauguration to a second term, but one event overshadowed nearly everything else that came before and after it — Trump’s pardons and commutations for the January 6 defendants, including those who committed violence against police.

The move drew widespread and bipartisan condemnation, although many equated Trump’s move with now-former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons even as they acknowledged they were in response to threats from Trump.

On Tuesday’s edition of CNN This Morning, Hunt’s regulars took turns giving their takes, with the anchor interjecting occasionally. When GOP analyst Brad Todd said he hoped the pardons got it all out of Trump’s “system,” Hunt was skeptical:

KATE BEDINGFIELD: It clearly puts a lot of Republicans who have said that you should not give a pardon to somebody who assaulted a police officer.

KASIE HUNT: Police officers who, by the way, were protecting people like Mike Johnson that day.

KATE BEDINGFIELD: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But I also I actually I think Trump is is misreading what swept him into office here.

And the fact that he’s not spending he didn’t spend his first day talking about what he’s going to do to lower prices or highlighting the executive orders that he signed that he claims are going to lower prices.

I think his base wanted to see what he did yesterday. I think that actually the vast majority of people who voted for him were uncomfortable with January 6th, but said, I think the different direction he’s going to take the country and the economy is what matters.

And I think he’s misreading and I actually think that’s going to be a political vulnerability for him moving forward.

BRAD TODD: January 2021 has always been an Achilles heel for Donald Trump and it’s always held him back from his better days talking about what he wanted to do for the American people.

I think a lot of Republicans are hoping that now this is out of his system right now. He can turn the page from the 2020 election. He can move forward.

This is his-+- he’s he’s used all his power to put to put an end to the book. And so now let’s see if he can move on.

KASIE HUNT: I’ll believe it when I see it!

TARA PALMERI: I think it’s interesting too what you brought up about the fact that he could have pardoned himself in advance. He talked about it. He thought about it back in 2020, but I think he didn’t have that political power. He can’t –he left on such a low note, but he has such a strong mandate right now. I think he feels like he is invincible and that’s why he took that step.

But I think Donald Trump, even he understands that he won’t have that power in a few months.

KASIE HUNT: Jonah I want to give you the last word.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Yeah, look, I mean, Brad, I you know, I love you man. (LAUGHTER).

This, this, this this eternal dream is losing in the football. The eternal dream is Waiting for Godot. Like desire to see Trump pivot, to be a responsible. You know, today he is now president for everybody moment. It hasn’t happened. I don’t think it’s going to happen.

This is an Aesopian thing. His nature is his nature. And he will he craves he would much rather positive attention than negative attention, but he’ll take negative attention over no attention any day.

So he will create many, many, many more moments that create bowel-stewing panic for Republican candidates, trying to figure out what to say.

BRAD TODD: I’m I’m an American optimist.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Bless your heart.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.