'That's crazy, Scott': GOP strategist read the riot act on CNN over Trump's history
Republican party strategist Scott Jennings got a brutal dressing down from Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) on CNN Sunday morning and had no answers when she listed off Donald Trump's egregious conduct and his plans to become a dictator.
During the panel segment of CNN's "State of the Union," the question about President Joe Biden's political future after a terrible debate performance almost two weeks ago was made front and center when Dingle complained that Donald Trump's recent history is being ignored — and then Jennings made light of it.
Reacting to Biden's poor performance, Jennings smirked and stated, "It's only the commander in chief we are talking about. He's not just a candidate."
"Which is why we should be talking about Donald Trump and all the things he's done," Dingell shot back as Jennings tried to talk over her.
"How he wants to be a dictator!" Dingell said of the former president. "How he thinks [overturning] Roe v Wade is the greatest thing he ever did. And how he wants to give your billionaire friends a tax cut and he thinks Jan. 6 was a great thing."
"You give me too much credit, I wish I had some billionaire friends," Jennings retorted without addressing Trump's issues.
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The GOP strategist then continued, "You got colleagues, public, and private, who want Joe Biden to step down. You've got a lot of colleagues in your conference who want him to get out of the way and what they're really saying is we don't have confidence in him to lead for the next four years which really means they don't have confidence in him to lead today."
"This is not a campaign problem, this is a White House problem. There are real questions about whether he's acting independently," he added. "He said, by the way, in his interview with [George] Stephanopoulos the other night, he wanted to do three things: restore decency and now he's got Hunter Biden running the White House senior staff meetings and he said he wanted to do something for the middle-class..."
"Hunter Biden's not running the White House, come on," interjected CNN host Dana Bash.
Democratic strategist Doug Thornell also jumped in with, "That's crazy, Scott."
"I'm sorry, I'm just reading the journalism, I'm pro-journalist here," Jennings attempted.
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