Maggie Haberman and Kaitlan Collins Call BS On Pals Saying Trump Wants To Go To Jail: ‘Doesn’t Even Like Staying In Hotel Rooms’
New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman and CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins called BS on sources who say ex-President Donald Trump wants to be thrown in jail because “he thinks that being jailed will help him.”
Trump was found in contempt of court Tuesday for repeatedly violating Judge Merchan’s gag order in the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial being prosecuted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The judge excoriated Trump Tuesday in his contempt order, imposing the maximum fines and ordering Trump to take down the offending posts — while threatening jail for further violations.
On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Haberman and Collins talked about Trump’s testing of the boundaries, but Haberman pushed back on those close to Trump who think he’s trying to get himself thrown in the slam — and Collins agreed:
COLLINS: He also brought up Matthew Colangelo there, at the end. That is one of the prosecutors, on the Manhattan District Attorney’s team.
HABERMAN: Yes.
COLLINS: When Trump was going after him, that was found to be a violation of the gag order.
HABERMAN: Yes.
COLLINS: And the gag order was — or the gag order was expanded, I should say, to include the people on Alvin Bragg’s team, not Alvin Bragg.
HABERMAN: Right.
COLLINS: Because there was a concern about them being put at risk, for implications like that.
Trump’s got another gag order hearing, tomorrow.
HABERMAN: Yes.
COLLINS: I mean, I wonder what you’re making of how he’s reacting to being fined. $9,000 is not a huge fee for him. But being told by the judge, if you keep doing this jail is a real possibility.
HABERMAN: There are some people around him, who think that he is intentionally trying to see how far he can go, and that he thinks that being jailed will help him even if it’s for a day.
Most people I talked to, who know Trump pretty well, do not think that he actually really wants to go to jail. There’s — I don’t think he wants to sit in that courtroom every day. Did people think that jail is going to be a more pleasant experience for him?
But I do think that we see him often go up and touch the hot stove, and then he comes back a little bit. And sometimes, he goes up again. He is always testing the bounds of what he can get away with.
Now, he did take down the social media posts that he was ordered to take down yesterday.
COLLINS: Yes.
HABERMAN: He did not, as you note, attack witnesses, or people connected to the case, relatives of the court, et cetera, at his rallies today. But we’ll see what happens going forward.
COLLINS: Yes, Trump doesn’t even like to stay in hotel rooms.
HABERMAN: Correct.
COLLINS: I remember, on foreign trips, when he was president, he didn’t even like staying in other hotel rooms.
Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
