WATCH: CNN Takes All 13 Minutes of Trump Victory Lap Speech, But Promptly Bails After First Question is a Total Cream Puff

 

Former President Donald Trump celebrated his victory at the Supreme Court on Monday after the justices ruled unanimously that his name would remain on ballots across the country. He spoke at Mar-a-Lago in a rambling speech that lasted approximately 13 minutes, which CNN carried in its entirety.

CNN cut back to anchor Dana Bash when Trump stopped talking to take questions, the first of which was a layup:

Mr. President, the poll numbers are massive for you going into Super Tuesday. We found a lot of people that were agnostic to politics in general…

At that point, Bash summed up the speech:

Okay, we’ve been listening to Donald Trump, and we’re going to continue to monitor as he takes questions from reporters there in Mar-a-Lago. We have been hearing him first and foremost, talk about the fact that he is obviously very pleased about the Supreme Court decision to keep him on the ballot or prevent Colorado from taking him off the ballot, and therefore other states as well, because of the actions that he was involved with in and around January 6th. Then he veered into lots of other areas where we definitely have to fact check.

Bash then welcomed CNN senior reporter and resident Trump fact-checker Daniel Dale, who had his work cut out for him.

Watch the video above via CNN.

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