CNBC’s Sorkin Confronts Trump Megadonor Over ‘Remarkable’ Parade Of Ex-Trump Officials Slamming Him

CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin confronted Trump megadonor Hal Lambert over the parade of ex-Trump cabinet officials coming out against him.

The list of former top Trump officials who have come out against former President Donald Trump is as long as it is blistering in the terms with which its members do so.

On Friday’s edition of CNBC’s Squawk Box, Sorkin cut into a friendly chat between Lambert and Joe Kernan to confront Lambert over that list, and to call him out for trying to minimize the criticisms:

ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: How how do you think about all of the cabinet members that have decried this president, his own cabinet members, so Bill Barr saying that he should not be anywhere near the Oval Office?

This is his own attorney general.

We can go to James Mattis. We can go to Mark Esper. We can go to General Mark Milley. We can go to Rex Tillerson. (Kernan: Kelly.) I mean, we get staff. H.R. McMaster. I can go there. John Bolton, John Kelly.

I mean, we can go through a remarkable list of people who know him arguably better than just about anyone, possibly even yourself. I don’t mean to suggest you don’t know him well, but people who were working with him day in and day out who have a visceral reaction to a view that this man should not be near the White House.

HAL LAMBERT: Right? I mean, that’s true. I mean, there’s there’s a number of former cabinet officials that that view that, that view that way. And I think, you know, a lot of that’s because of the relationship soured while they were there. I, as we may remember, you know —

ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: You’ve never heard anything. Hal have you ever heard anything like that in your life before from other cabinet–? I mean, I you can go back in history. It’s very rare where you’ll find cabinet members publicly come out and say, I’ve worked with this person. They should never be near the White House.

HAL LAMBERT: Well, I don’t know how many said that. I think that maybe 1 or, 1 person that said that, was that Bill Barr? But I think, you know, I don’t think they’ve all said that.

I think you’ve had their their relationship strained with President Trump, as I was about to say, you know, Rex Tillerson was fired over Twitter while he was overseas. So that’s certainly not going to, you know, create a relationship down the road.

And so, you know, it’s just a bombastic way that Trump operates. And it’s certainly hurt him with those, with those former administrative officials.

Watch above via CNBC’s Squawk Box.