‘So Deferential’: CNN’s Paul Begala Marvels at Trump ‘Literally Looking Up’ at Elon Musk in Oval Office

CNN’s Paul Begala mocked President Donald Trump for his comportment during an Oval Office Q&A featuring Elon Musk on Tuesday, submitting that Trump was “deferential” to Musk in a way that he’s been to almost no one else.

After playing a clip of Musk speaking during the Q&A, anchor Kate Bolduan observed that Begala had called the scene “surreal” before asking him to expand on that thought.

“Well, it was. First off, just the optics: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, was sitting. His supposed aide, Mr. Musk, was standing. Trump’s literally looking up at him,” began Begala. “I’ve never seen Trump so deferential — well once, when he was with [Vladimir] Putin. So this is a weird dynamic where Trump seems to really be happy to hand off power to this guy. And I suppose that’s fine. But my bigger problem was the talk about fraud and corruption.”

He continued:

Donald Trump’s only experience with fraud is committing it. He’s a convicted felon for committing fraud, business records, fraud. And so he doesn’t give a rip snort about fraud. Give me a break! If you care about fraud, if you care about corruption, you don’t fire the inspectors general, right? These are folks who have saved the taxpayers $70 billion a year in waste, fraud. and abuse. You don’t fire the head of the Office of Government Ethics if you care about fraud and ethics. You don’t gut the FBI, you don’t cripple the Department of Justice. You don’t close the Consumer Financial Protection Board, which saves taxpayers and consumers billions and billions of dollars. So this is-, the fraud here is them saying they’re going after corruption. This is all about transferring wealth from the working class to the billionaire class. It’s government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires. That’s really what’s going on here.

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