Kaitlan Collins Mocks ‘Ridiculous’ Claim Trump Wants to Be Jailed: ‘He Doesn’t Even Like to Stay in a Hotel’
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins disputed the claim that Donald Trump wants to be sent to jail for violating the gag order in his New York criminal trial.
Judge Juan Merchan found the former president in contempt on Monday after ruling Trump violated the order for the tenth time. Merchan told the defendant that though he does not want to, he may send Trump to jail for future verbal attacks on witnesses, jurors, or court staff.
An angry Trump emerged from court to rail against Merchan and the gag order, just as he has done virtually every day of his trial. He suggested he may risk jail by running afoul of Merchan again.
“And frankly, you know what? Our Constitution is much more important than jail,” Trump said. “It’s not even close. I’ll do that sacrifice any day.”
Collins scoffed at the notion hours later on CNN where Anderson Cooper read part of the judge’s admonition to Trump.
“He said, ‘Mr. Trump, it’s important to understand that the last thing I want to do is put you in jail. You are the former president United States and possibly the next president, as well. There are many reasons why incarceration is truly a last resort for me. To take that step would be disruptive to these proceedings, which I imagine you want to end as quickly as possible.’ Just politically, Kaitlan, what would what would this mean?”
Collins replied:
The idea that Donald Trump would actually want to go to jail is ridiculous. Anyone who knows him knows that he doesn’t even like to stay in a hotel when he goes on foreign trips, when he wouldn’t as president. It was a whole thing to actually get him to stay overnight in places.
So this idea that he actually does want to do this for the optics perspective, I mean, when you speak to his closest advisers and allies, they’ll say that’s completely far-fetched. Do they think it would work to their advantage? Maybe politically, but I do think Donald Trump heeding this is something that you never see Donald Trump do, which is actually which is actually words. And he keeps acknowledging that every time he goes into that courtroom, even if he is lying about what the gag order actually says, he can and cannot do, he is being careful.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Watch above via CNN.
