ABC News Crew That Triggered Trump Roasts ‘Clearly Flailing’ Candidate — ‘A Lot Of Golf’ And ‘A Lot Of Time In Court’
An ABC News segment that triggered former President Donald Trump included commentary about Trump’s “clearly flailing” candidacy and his attention to golf and court cases.
Trump threatened to back out of a September 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, citing two segments from Sunday’s edition of ABC’s This Week — the first being a tough interview in which anchor Jonathan Karl called BS when Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) tried to defend former President Donald Trump’s attacks on the Congressional Medal of Honor as inferior to the Medal of Freedom.
The other thing that triggered Trump is what he called ” their so-called Panel of Trump Haters” — which included some brutal commentary from Rachel Bade, Jonathan Martin, and Karl:
RACHAEL BADE, POLITICO PLAYBOOK CO-AUTHOR: And the fact that you’re even saying this, though, shows how effective the DNC was this week, in terms of messaging, — this notion that she was able to sort of change and totally flip the script to say, look, we’re — I’m the hope — I’m the hope candidate here. I’m the one who’s going to set out the country to start on a new path forward.
You’re right. She has been in the White House for, what, three and a half years now. But the fact this they were able to sort of rechange everything and make Donald Trump look like the incumbent I think, you know, is really effective here.
And I also would say the other thing about, you know, how impactful this DNC was last week. Just — just look at Donald Trump in the past few days.
KARL: Yeah.
BADE: I mean, this notion of him trying to make up with Brian Kemp, the popular governor of Georgia, who he was blasting just the other day, saying things like I’m going to be great for women and for reproductive rights. I’m a great leader on IVF.
I mean, he clearly is flailing right now and people have been telling him for weeks — focus on policy, focus on policy, focus on policy.
He hasn’t listened and now, he’s really got a lot of ground to make up in these polls.
KARL: And you see it in his schedule, by the way. I mean, J. Mart, he’s out there. I mean, he had been, let’s face it, a lot of time in Mar-a-Lago.
MARTIN: A lot of golf.
KARL: A lot of time in Bedminster.
MARTIN: A lot of golf.
KARL: A lot of golf.
BRAZILE: And a lot of time in court.
KARL: And a lot of time in court.
BRAZILE: So, let’s not forget that.
KARL: So, so — I mean, he’s — he’s out there now. But look what he’s saying when he gets out there.
MARTIN: Let’s be brutally honest. If you took a survey of the Republican Caucus on Capitol Hill and said, would you prefer Trump to play golf for the rest of the campaign and let his campaign drive the message or have Donald Trump do events? We all know which they prefer.
He’s a political health risk to himself when he travels and does events because as Rachael points out, they want policy.
He’s never going to do policy. He doesn’t want to talk about policy. That’s boring for him.
Watch above via ABC’s This Week.
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