CNN’s Maggie Haberman And Kaitlan Collins Roast Trump After ‘Temporary Win’: ‘So Many Losses Lately!’

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman and anchor Kaitlan Collins pointed out that former President Donald Trump’s “temporary win” in Georgia comes amid “so many losses!”

Trump got a bit of good news in  the Georgia election crimes case Wednesday when Judge Scott McAfee dismissed six counts against Trump and several of his 18 co-defendants.

“As written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission, i.e., the underlying felony solicited,” McAfee wrote in his order.

The six charges dropped were out of a total of 13 felony counts, although a pending decision on disqualifying Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis could endanger the remainder of the case.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Haberman stressed repeatedly in an interview that while Team Trump is happy about the move, it is a “temporary victory,” while Collins pointed out with a laugh that the wins have been few and far between:

COLLINS: And of course, the drama in Georgia is just one of several legal battles that Trump is fighting this week, and going to be doing for the next foreseeable future.

In the E. Jean Carroll civil case, here in New York, a judge has approved his $91 million bond.

And tomorrow, the presumptive Republican nominee is not going to be on the campaign trail. He’ll be in a Florida courtroom, which he’s been using as his campaign trail. That’s for a hearing in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

Here with me to talk about that, CNN Political Analyst, and Senior Political Correspondent for The New York Times, Maggie Haberman.

What’s your sense, Maggie, of how Trump is responding to what happened? I mean, Steve Sadow, his attorney, is calling it a victory. How does he see what happened today?

MAGGIE HABERMAN: Trump and his folks are very happy about what happened today. But it is a temporary victory. It will be — the bigger question is going to be what happens, in terms of Fani Willis staying on this case.

But this case is being fought, and they all are, but this one in particular, the Georgia case, is fought on a PR grounds, because there is an expectation this will not get heard this year, at the rate that it’s going. And so, anything that Trump and his team can do, to chip away at a perception of validity, in their minds, is a good thing.

Again, legally, this is a temporary win. But in the political realm, this is helpful to him.

COLLINS: (laughs0 I mean, they kind of take the wins that they can get.

HABERMAN: Correct.

COLLINS: Because they’ve had so many losses lately!

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.