CNN’s David Urban, a former Trump campaign adviser and frequent ally of the president’s on the airwaves, was highly critical of Trump’s shakedown of the Department of Justice for $230 million on Tuesday.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was seeking the hefty payout as compensation for the investigations into him during the Biden administration.
On CNN’s The Arena With Kasie Hunt, conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg took the first at-bat reacting to the report.
Goldberg called it “weird politics” and submitted that “it shows you what a different time we’re in that this is even being considered,” especially given the ongoing government shutdown and other corruption allegations against Trump.
Then the Times‘ Lulu Garcia-Navarro noted that the cash Trump was seeking was “taxpayer money” that would be “going into the president’s pocketbook.”
Host Kasie Hunt then turned to Urban.
“Listen, I agree with Jonah that most of those cases that were brought against the president are just egregious, right? The Letitia James case, the Alvin Bragg case. I was, you know, a part of the 2016 campaign firsthand, and had to suffer through the James Comey Russiagate, watching my friends get dragged before grand juries so I can understand some of what the president wants,” began the former Trump adviser. “But to Lulu’s point exactly, this is
“I mean, he may be personally aggrieved and deserved an apology from some of these folks, but, I think taxpayers paying that is-, it’s probably not something that you want to see,” he concluded.
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