CNN’s Chris Wallace Does Brutal Rundown Of Trump’s ‘Week Of Unforced Errors’
CNN anchor Chris Wallace gave a brutal rundown of ex-Donald Trump’s “week of unforced errors” that saw his campaign doing “damage control” on several fronts.
In addition to an attack on Judge Juan Merchan’s Hispanic background and a campaign video featuring language about a “unified Reich,” Trump also had to walk back a cock-up on contraception.
Journalists Kristen Soltis Anderson, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Reihan Salam, and Kara Swisher joined Wallace for this week’s edition of CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show on Saturday morning, which opened with Wallace’s unflinching recap:
CHRIS WALLACE: Today we’re asking, from an attack on the hush money trial judge to a Nazi reference on a campaign video. What’s going on with Donald Trump’s week of unforced errors?
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CHRIS WALLACE: Up first. Donald Trump’s hush money trial is expected to go to the jury by mid week. But it’s Trump’s comments and his campaign’s mistake that are raising eyebrows right now.
DONALD TRUMP: The judge hates Donald Trump!
CHRIS WALLACE: First, Donald Trump attacked the judge on the hush money trial. Juan Merchan, who was born in Colombia and emigrated to the U.S. as a child,=.
DONALD TRUMP: Takes a look at where he comes from!
CHRIS WALLACE: The moment reminiscent of 2016.
DONALD TRUMP: He’s a Mexican!
When Trump railed against the judge who oversaw the Trump University lawsuit because of his Mexican heritage.
DONALD TRUMP: I’m building a wall, okay? And it’s a wall between Mexico.
JAKE TAPPER: He’s not from Mexico! He’s from Indiana!
CHRIS WALLACE: Then Trump was asked if he’d consider restrictions on contraception.
DONALD TRUMP: Well, we’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly. Things really do have a lot to do with the States.
CHRIS WALLACE: He quickly walked that back, posting he will never limit access to birth control.
Trump’s campaign also in cleanup mode after he reposted and then deleted a video with hypothetical headlines about him winning the election.
VIDEO: What’s next for America?
CHRIS WALLACE: In several places, it said Unified Reich, which is what Hitler called his Nazi regime a reference even as staunchest allies chose not to defend.
MANU RAJU: Any concerns about the former president posting a unified Reich on social media?
Watch above via CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show.
