CNN’s Maggie Haberman and Kaitlan Collins Roast Trump’s Attack on Biden at Presser: ‘Contradicted Itself In One Sentence’

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman and anchor Kaitlan Collins roasted a “contradictory” attack on President Joe Biden that former President Donald Trump made at a press conference this week.

Monday was a mixed day for Trump as the hearing in the Stormy Daniels hush money case resulted in a denial of Trump’s attempts to delay the trial, but during the hearing the New York appeals court ruled he could have an additional ten days to post a reduced amount of $175 million to proceed with his appeal of the $460 million-plus fraud judgment hanging over his head.

Trump held a press conference after court, during which he launched many familiar attacks that included falsely accusing Biden of being behind the court cases against him.

Haberman and Collins called out the attack on Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, and also called BS on Trump’s claim he planned to use his own cash for his presidential campaign:

COLLINS: Well, and he was also, at one point, he was also saying that Biden is directing a lot of this, and then saying, well, he didn’t know if Biden is–

HABERMAN: Yes, well that’s–

COLLINS: –competent enough to direct it. But–

HABERMAN: He’s — right. He’s both a mastermind, and not capable of doing it.

(CROSSTALK)

COLLINS: Right, which it was an argument, it contradicted itself in one sentence.

HABERMAN: Right.

COLLINS: But on his other claim he’s been making that he wanted to use this money, to fund his presidential campaign. I mean, he has not — he’d not made one utterance of that–

HABERMAN: Right.

COLLINS: –before Friday.

HABERMAN: No, he posted this on Truth Social. And what was incredible about it was that he posted the idea that, I had all — I have all this cash, and I was going to use it to fund my campaign. But now, I have to pay this judgment.

And he has not funded his campaign since 2016. And even then, he only partially funded. He still raised donations in 2020. He raised a significant amount of money, as a sitting president. There has been no indication he was going to self-fund. He’s not paying for his own lawyers, right now. He is using donations from small-dollar donors, to pay for his lawyers, and to pay for the lawyers of other people. So, that was a pretty clear straw-man.

Now, if he suddenly decides he’s going to put a lot of money into his campaign, then we’ll all be surprised. He is at a huge disparity with President Biden, in terms of fundraising. But I don’t expect that’s where this is going.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.

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