'What happened to that Donald Trump?' CNN host uses Trump's words against him in takedown
CNN host Abby Phillip threw President Donald Trump's words back in his face in a searing takedown on "NewsNight."
During an Easter event at the White House on Wednesday, Trump claimed the federal government cannot afford to continue paying for programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Instead, he suggested that states raise their taxes to pay for it, and that the U.S. government should focus solely on defense spending.
Phillip pointed out that Trump's comments seemed to stand at odds with other campaign pledges he's made in the past. She played a clip of him talking about "endless" wars in the Middle East, and how the money used to fund them could have "rebuilt" America.
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