CNN Anchor Confronts Trump Fan On Profiting From Presidency ‘In Broad Daylight’

CNN anchor Abby Phillip confronted Trump supporters over President Donald Trump and his family “profiting” from the presidency “in broad daylight.”

News broke Wednesday that Comey and New York AG Letitia James (D) will face indictment days after Trump publicly pressured Bondi to go after a list of enemies in a DM-style Truth Social post and again in remarks to reporters. Comey and AG James were named with others in those remarks.

On Wednesday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip hosted a panel comprised of Bakari Sellers, Ben Ferguson, Kristin Davison, Adam Mockler, and Dan Abrams to discuss the issue.

During the segment, Phillip called out Trump and his family for “influencing policy and then directly profiting from that policy”:

MOCKLER: Hunter Biden was being investigated during Biden’s term. Do you think Don Jr. would ever be investigated by Pam Bondi?

SELLERS: Absolutely not.

MOCKLER: Absolutely not.

ABRAMS: Wait, hold on. If he did a crime, I think, yes.

MOCKLER: No, he would not.

(CROSSTALKS)

FERGUSON: Let’s be clear. Let’s be clear about Hunter Biden and what Hunter Biden did.

SELLERS: That wasn’t the question.

FERGUSON: If Don Jr. is sitting on the board of Burisma right now and was taking massive amounts of money, I have no doubt — again, I actually, I think that —

(CROSSTALKS)

PHILLIP: Hold on one second. One second. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. It’s just too many people talking at one time.

Make your comment so we can actually hear it.

FERGUSON: If you had Don Jr. painting paintings and selling them for six figures, and, by the way, nobody else (INAUDIBLE), I absolutely believe there would be an investigation. Because, honestly, I don’t —

(CROSSTALKS)

MOCKLER: Tom Homan was found taking $50,000 bribes. Where’s the investigation? Will you call for an investigation on Tom Homan?

FERGUSON: So, now, he’s just immediately convicted by you.

MOCKLER: That’s a little different.

FERGUSON: No. I’m saying thank you. I think you’re being —

(CROSSTALKS)

SELLERS: But I don’t think there’s any argument that Trump and his family are profiteering off the White House. There’s no question about whether or not it’s crypto scams, whether or not it’s —

FERGUSON: Not finger painting.

SELLERS: Whether or not — that’s not —

(CROSSTALKS)

SELLERS: That is not the point. So, you’re —

PHILLIP: Are you suggesting that the nature of —

SELLERS: The crime?

PHILLIP: I’m not calling it a crime. I don’t want to — listen, I’m not suggesting it’s a crime. The nature of the profiteering off the presidency is the thing that is the distinction, not the profiteering.

FERGUSON: I think what you have with the Trump family is successful individuals that actually made money and their most successful things in life weren’t what Hunter Biden was doing.

PHILLIP: Well, we also do know that the Trump family is influencing policy and then directly profiting from that policy.

SELLERS: Correct.

PHILLIP: That is happening right now in broad daylight, the president himself is profiting off that. (CROSSTALKS)

FERGUSON: So, you’re just saying, he’s not breaking law and you want to trash the Trump brand?

PHILLIP: Ben, hold on a second. I literally said I didn’t, I’m not going to call it a crime, but I’m just saying if you’re talking about profiteering, you just used that word.

FERGUSON: Hunter Biden had to take —

PHILLIP: There’s profiteering happening right now.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.