CNN Anchor Torpedoes Scott Jennings Calling Trump-Epstein Bombshell ‘A Dud’: Trump ‘Clearly Pissed Off’

CNN anchor Abby Phillip torpedoed GOP analyst Scott Jennings’s claim that the bombshell Jeffrey Epstein-Trump story was “a dud” by pointing out that President Donald Trump is “clearly very pissed off” about it.

Trump flipped out and threatened to sue after The Wall Street Journal dropped a hotly anticipated profile of the Trump-Epstein relationship that included a highly suggestive note — which Trump vehemently denied writing.

On Thursday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Jennings rolled out his take in defense of Trump, calling the story a “dud” and “warning” it could “brings people to circle the wagons around him.”

Phillip countered by telling Jennings “Trump doesn’t agree with you”:

ABBY PHILLIP: So, Trump is saying, I didn’t do this, but I think to me, it’s a separate question, Scott, whether this thing exists. And it seems that the Journal has evidence that it does, in fact, exist and that it’s perhaps among the many, many, many documents that are in the possession of investigators here.

SCOTT JENNINGS: Yes. I mean, my, my reaction to reading this was, so, I mean, 2003, before anything had happened, we know Donald Trump knew the guy. We also know he disowned him and kicked him out of his club. I was waiting all day long for this rumoring of a bombshell.

This looks like kind of a dud to me. And, look, the president says it’s not — I don’t know, but either way, this gives me like Kavanaugh yearbook vibes. My impression is Republicans are going to strongly rally around the president on this thing. I mean, he may have been facing some turbulence over the Epstein situation, but this is the sort of stuff that brings people to circle the wagons around him.

I’m just warning.

PHILLIP: Just to be clear, Trump doesn’t agree with you because he’s clearly very pissed off about this, perhaps very freaked out about it because it’s embarrassing.

TOURE: I think this goes deep into the MAGA psyche and creates a cognitive dissonance. That is why we’re seeing them revolt against him in this moment. He was supposed to be their guy who would go in there and do what the people would want and fight against the globalists who are pedophiles. Here’s a perfect example of a globalist who is a pedophile. Trump told us, I’m going to out that guy in his client list. What happened? Now, he gets in, he acts like everybody else who’s protecting the globalist pedophiles.

So, how could you continue to think as MAGA, he’s going to protect us when he clearly didn’t in this situation?

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.