‘Wish I wasn’t defending that’: Ex-GOP gov lets the mask slip on Trump’s ballot flip
A former Republican governor let the mask slip on CNN as he defended the president for making a surprising move.
President Donald Trump reportedly voted by mail in Florida's Republican primary despite his repeated claims that mail-in ballots are "cheating" and "fraud." Chris Sununu, the former Republican governor of New Hampshire, attempted to defend Trump's claims during a segment on CNN's "The Source" with host Dana Bash, and inadvertently let the mask slip about his own feelings on Trump's argument.
Bash played a mashup of Trump's previous attacks on mail-in voting and asked Sununu to respond.
"Optics matter," Sununu said. "I support the president, but this is definitely a bad move. I'm very much against mail-in voting myself, and I think it's rife with a whole lot of problems. We don't have it in New Hampshire. We have the highest voter turnout in the country. So no, you can't go around railing on mail-in voting and then go ahead and do it yourself. It kind of deflates the argument a little bit. So, [I] wish I wasn't defending that on CNN tonight."
Bill de Blasio, the former Democratic mayor of New York City, who was also on the panel, chimed in that Trump's attacks on mail-in voting could hurt his chances during the midterms.
"The bottom line is these kinds of hypocrisies, this kind of personal obsession, whether it's the ballroom, mail-in voting, [or] the Qatari jet, he's just losing," de Blasio said. "He's losing his audience more and more, and I don't know how they're going to change course between now and the midterms at this point."
‘Wild’ Trump rant ends in ‘a perfect encapsulation’ of his failures: analyst
President Donald Trump's rant about drug prices to reporters last week was a "perfect encapsulation" of his administration's failures, according to one analyst.
Trump lectured reporters about how his administration had lowered drug prices for Americans, waving a printout of a Washington Post article with the headline, "Prescription drug prices record sharpest drop in more than 60 years," last Friday at Joint Base Andrews. There was just one problem with his prop, according to David Pakman, host of the liberal "David Pakman Show" on YouTube. Pakman noted that experts cited in the article credited a "Biden-era policy that requires Medicare to negotiate prices for some popular prescription drugs" as "more likely" to be driving down costs.
Pakman reacted to Trump's rant in a new video on Monday.
"It is difficult to imagine a more perfect encapsulation of Donald Trump," Pakman said. "He sees a flattering headline, and he stops reading."
"I guess they don't assume that supporters of Trump are going to read any further, and they're probably right," Pakman added. "But it is wild that Trump is bringing us the evidence that it's thanks to Biden."
Pakman also flagged a "deeper irony" in the rant.
"One of Trump's priorities, in addition to dismantling everything that Barack Obama did as president, is dismantling the legacy of Joe Biden," Pakman said. "In this case, a Biden policy gave Trump something he wanted to brag about. So, now he goes, 'This was all me. I'm the one who did it.' And this is how the Trump operation of disinformation works."
