And to boot, he boasted about his role in the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Jean Carroll, who just bested him in court. If female voters are key to a Donald Trump victory in 2024, the former president should be in big trouble – but he doesn’t seem to care.Īfter being found liable for sexual abuse by a New York jury earlier this week, Trump took to the CNN town hall stage Wednesday night and proceeded to mock and berate Kaitlan Collins, the female anchor questioning him (a “nasty” person, he called her) after mocking and berating E. Jill Filipovic Courtesy of Jill Filipovic Jill Filipovic: Trump needs women to win in 2024, but he doesn’t seem to care Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator, was a political consultant for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992 and served as a counselor to Clinton in the White House. Trump is a narcissist in a hall of mirrors. Not a thought for the tens of millions of women whose rights have been rolled back by Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices – just triumphant boasting about how he was the GOP president who actually delivered on the overturning of Roe v. Not a word of thanks for veterans and their families. Not a mention of the struggling rural families wrestling with the demon of opioid abuse. There was not a hint of empathy for the heroic cops who were brutally attacked on January 6. He failed to acknowledge the very real pain felt by so many Americans – including the millions who voted for him. He used the first-person pronoun in nearly every sentence, sounding like a tenor warming up for the opera: “Me, me, me, me, meeeeee.” This was vintage Trump: whining about the election he lost, grumbling about being indicted in New York, moaning about the jury that found him liable for the civil offense of sexual abuse and defamation. And there’s little indication he did enough to win over independent voters. It was an airing of grievances that will doubtless thrill his MAGA base, but may well motivate anti-Trump voters just as much. Opioid deaths skyrocketed, and the national debt exploded by $7 trillion during Trump’s tenure.īut in tonight’s CNN town hall, Trump told us who the real victim of this era is: Donald Trump.įrom the opening question to his last comment, Trump whined, griped and complained. 2.9 million Americans lost their jobs while former President Donald Trump was in the White House. More than 400,000 Americans died from Covid-19 during the Trump presidency.

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