Maggie Haberman Reveals One Trump Grievance That Is ‘Never a Topic His Advisers Want Him Talking About’
CNN commentator Maggie Haberman weighed on Donald Trump’s diatribe at Trump Tower on Friday morning, where the former president slammed the guilty verdict he received the day before.
On Thursday, a Manhattan jury convicted Trump of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to cover up extramarital affairs.
Trump took no questions at what was billed as a press event on Friday morning. Instead, he ranted for more than 30 minutes and called the U.S. a “fascist state.”
“What did you make of it today?” Kaitlan Collins asked Haberman on Friday’s edition of The Source.
“I talked to a number of people around him who are very happy he didn’t take questions because that probably would’ve led to more problematic areas for him,” Haberman replied. “In their ideal world, he would’ve just kept it focused on the process and ‘This is unfair,’ and the parts of his speech where he talked about this is about the Constitution and they’re trying to make this a much bigger fight.”
Haberman went on to say that Trump simply cannot prevent himself from repeating his longtime grievances – including one that his advisers “never” want him to articulate:
But he can’t help himself. And so he attacks the judge, and he attacks Michael Cohen, and he attacks this one and that one. And he says all kinds of other things. And then he starts talking about the January 6 House investigation, which is never a topic his advisers want him talking about. So, it turned into a mini-rally and it was filled with grievances and I think you will see more of that.
In addition to the New York case, Trump has been indicted in three other jurisdictions. Two of those cases stem from his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, which he falsely claims was rigged against him. Those efforts culminated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which the former president watched unfold on television while ignoring lawmakers’ pleas for help. In the last Congress, the Democratic-controlled House formed the Jan. 6 select committee to investigate Trump’s role in attempting to subvert the election up to and including the riot.
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