CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Jim Acosta Torpedo Trump’s Courthouse Rant Attacking Biden: ‘I Just Want To Correct That’

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Jim Acosta punctured holes in former President Donald Trump’s rant outside a hearing in which he falsely accused President Joe Biden of directing the prosecution and claimed he was being forced off the campaign trail to be there.

Trump ranted to reporters Thursday outside a hearing in the case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has brought involving hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, which resulted in a several-dozen-count indictment of Trump.

But on Thursday afternoon’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, Collins disputed some of Trump’s claims in a live shot with Kara Scannell, and continued as she tossed to Acosta:

COLLINS: And the judge predicted this could take about six weeks. I mean, Trump himself chose to be — I should note in this courtroom today, not in the one in Georgia, where Laura and Zack were just now. What was the former president doing in the courtroom?

SCANNELL: So, it was interesting. Throughout them, he came in, he walked down the center aisle, it’s got, you know, rows on both sides. And he — as he did during the arraignment here, his eyes darted row to row to kind of see who was in the room. And then he sat down at the table. He was listening pretty attentively to the lawyers making their arguments. He was leaning back in his chair for a lot of it with his head pointed in the direction of the attorneys.

You know, what was interesting is at the end, once they had gone through a lot of the details. And the judge had said, is there anything else from any other side? I saw his lawyer look toward Trump, who nodded at him. And then as attorney again brought up saying, he thought it was so outrageous how this was election interference. So, repeating the line that Trump has used inside and outside the courtroom.

COLLINS: And very clearly those lawyers often performing, not just for the judge, but for an audience of one their client here at Kara. OK, we’ll check back in with you. And Jim, obviously, what is so notable about this is just looking at the bigger picture here. You know, the client — what we heard Trump said going into this courtroom and coming out multiple times.

And I just want to correct that because earlier we were going into the Nathan Wade testimony understandably. But Trump was claiming that this was the Biden justice department that’s carrying out this. It is not — it is the Manhattan district attorney. These are state charges that he is facing something that has been under investigation for quite some time, Jim.

ACOSTA: Right. This is part of his larger conspiracy theory that somehow all of these cases and prosecutors and judges are out to get them all at the same time. All right, Kaitlan Collins, thank you very much. And of course, we’ve got a lot to talk about

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