A super PAC supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ widely expected 2024 presidential run bashed former President Donald Trump for his performance at a CNN town hall Wednesday night, saying the 45th …
“On the same day Ron DeSantis was assailing Joe Biden’s border crisis, Donald Trump was on CNN attacking DeSantis and lying about finishing the border wall,” Erin Perrine, communications director for Never Back Down, said in a statement.
“We’d expect this kind of thing out of CNN—but it’s stunning to see Donald Trump transform into a made-for-CNN candidate, desperately seeking a national town hall, the most elite of elite forums. After all, in 2016, it was Donald Trump who electroshocked the Republican Party out of its elitism.” The Trump campaign put out a statement blasting President Biden for the state of the nation, saying: “Joe Biden has turned everything into a disaster: inflation, the economy, the border, crime, energy, China, Russia and wokeness in schools.”
The former president’s appearance on CNN was the first since his 2016 election, as anchor Kaitlin Collins questioned him about past statements on the 2020 election, the 2021 Capitol riot, his liable verdict in a sexual abuse and defamation case brought by the advice columnist E. Jean Carroll and the war in Ukraine.
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