MAGA Guest Stuns CNN Panel With Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory Involving Pope And Obama | EUROtoday

Republican donor Hal Lambert on Monday appeared on CNN to defend President Donald Trump, leaving fellow “NewsNight” panelists in shock with a conspiracy principle involving former President Barack Obama, his former chief strategist David Axelrod and Pope Leo XIV.

Trump revealed a controversial social media submit on Sunday condemning the pope and his requires peace amid the Iran War, calling the pontiff “WEAK on Crime” and “terrible at Foreign Policy,” which Lambert baselessly steered was the results of a shadow plot.

“But this is 100% political, OK?” Lambert stated throughout his “NewsNight” look. “This is all about trying to hurt President Trump’s Catholic vote during the midterms and Republicans during the midterms. If you look at what— play out the dots here.”

“David Axelrod goes and visits Pope Leo last week. They’re talking about Obama going to visit Pope Leo. Pope Leo is from Chicago,” he begins to elucidate. “All of a sudden, now Pope Leo is out attacking Trump and the policies of the United States and Israel.”

Lambert was a member of Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee and based the funding administration agency Point Bridge Capital, which presents a MAGA-branded exchange-traded fund that facilities on 150 corporations from the S&P 500 Index that assist Republican candidates.

While the pope on Saturday condemned U.S. and Israeli army aggressions towards Iran, “NewsNight” host Abby Phillip famous that he voiced his opposition to the battle lengthy earlier than Axelrod’s go to on April 9, and stated, “Hal, there are just a lot of flaws in this.”

“No, no, no,” he insisted. “There’s no flaws. There’s no flaws … Axelrod is the chief strategist for Obama? The pope is saying he’s not political? Why is he meeting with the chief strategist for both Obama’s campaigns and in the White House?”

Political commentator and fellow panelist Leigh McGowan famous that Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Francis final yr, prompting Phillip so as to add that the previous pontiff was “extremely critical” of Trump’s rhetoric on immigration and “still met with JD Vance.”

“So what’s the conspiracy?” Phillip requested.

Lambert stated, “Why has Pope Leo been… when Iran killed 30,000 plus of their own citizens, he didn’t call out the Iranian regime, at all? He said we need to stop violence … That wasn’t calling out the Iranian regime, and yet he’s calling out the United States and Israel.”

The pope has met with many officers and celebrities, together with actor Adam Scott, mannequin Naomi Campbell and director Judd Apatow, however Lambert oddly shunned claiming that this, too, was a conspiracy — maybe to get the pope’s blessing for an Italian rom-com.