‘Sweaty, Deer in the Headlights’: CNN Analyst Tears Apart Trump’s Handling of Booing Libertarians

Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator Maria Cardona said a “discombobulated” Donald Trump fumbled his handling of booing Libertarians on Saturday when the former president spoke at the Libertarian Party Convention.

The booing from the convention crowd was relentless and after 15 minutes, Trump responded, saying, “Keep getting your three percent every four years.”

CNN’s Jim Acosta on Monday said the attempt to win over third-party voters “blew up in [Trump’s] face.”

“[The campaign] is very careful about keeping him away from this stuff,” Acosta said. “And this just sort of blew up in his face.”

Cardona tore into Trump’s response to the displeased crowd and predicted there’ll likely be “some hell to pay within the campaign staff.”

“That’s what’s so surprising for a campaign team this time around that is very focused on making sure that he doesn’t get this kind of reaction, and I think there’s going to be some hell to pay within the campaign staff,” Cardona, a former Hillary Clinton advisor, said. “He looked discombobulated, he looked redder than usual, sweaty, deer in the headlights because this is not the kind of reaction that he normally gets.”

The negative response wasn’t “surprising,” Cardona added because Trump does not have a lot of agreement with libertarian values, citing the former president’s support of states restricting or banning abortion and his promise to be a “dictator” for a day when he’s back in office.

“Donald Trump’s agenda and his policies are the furthest thing from Libertarian that you can get,” she said.

Watch above via CNN.