‘Unfathomable!’ Maggie Haberman Says Campaign Will Be ‘Brutal’ And ‘Shocking’ With Trump On Trial

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman told anchor Kaitlan Collins that with former President Donald Trump’s trial beginning this month, it’s impossible to fathom how “shocking” this campaign will get.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins asked Haberman about Trump’s campaign cash problems, then moved on to Trump’s difficulties paying his legal fees and the fraud judgment that could cost him in excess of $460 million, as well as the $83.3 million judgment Trump owes for defaming E. Jean Carroll while he was president.

Collins wound up the interview by asking Habermanm to assess the presidential campaign now that it has been winnowed down to Trump vs. President Joe Biden:

COLLINS: What’s your just sense generally of — we’re in this moment, and so many people rely on your reporting, about Trump and have, for years. And just as we’re in this moment that a year ago, maybe it seemed like we would not be back here. What the next eight months or so are going to look like?

HABERMAN: They rely on your reporting too.

It’s going to be a very long general election, is what I would say. I think it is going to be a pretty brutal eight months. I mean, among other things, we’re going to have, unless something changes, a criminal trial, for one of the nominees. He won’t be the nominee yet. But he’s the presumptive nominee, right now.

With former President Trump expected to go on trial on March 25, in New York, that may be the only trial he faces this year. He has three other indictments in three other places. But that alone is unprecedented.

And so, I don’t — it is almost unfathomable to me, what else could happen this year. But even the next two months are going to be shocking.

COLLINS: Yes. Indeed, they are.

Maggie Haberman, great to have you. Thank you.

HABERMAN: Thanks, Kaitlan.

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