Former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor on Friday confronted pro-MAGA pundit Scott Jennings on CNN’s “NewsNight” for altering his tune on President Donald Trump, noting that Jennings used to overtly condemn Trump, calling him “an authoritarian” years in the past.
The “NewsNight” panel was discussing current fractures amongst Republicans over Trump’s battle in opposition to transparency concerning the Jeffrey Epstein case. Jennings stated he traces the anger again to Trump’s “righteous” choice to bomb Iran earlier this yr.
“I trace it back further than that, Scott,” countered Taylor. “I trace it back to 10 years ago, when you said Donald Trump was an authoritarian. And you know what, Scott? I’ve got to hand it to you, that was a remarkable forecast. Because 10 years later, I think you called it.”
“Here’s Donald Trump today, the man with the heart and soul of a fascist, showing us he now has the bona fides by tonight ordering investigations into American citizens,” Taylor continued. “That’s why members of his administration … have turned against him.”
Jennings described Trump as an “authoritarian” in a 2016 opinion column within the Louisville Courier-Journal. He additionally stated stay on CNN after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots that Trump “clearly violated his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.”
Jennings added that the riots have been “an insurrection” that “should be labeled as such.”
He tried to counter Taylor, who was a former chief of employees to Trump’s ex-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen earlier than writing a extremely vital essay in 2018 that led Trump to order an official Department of Justice investigation into Taylor’s supposed treason.
“Why are you so upset he is running the executive branch?” Jennings requested Taylor, who fired again, “For the same reasons you predicted he shouldn’t, for the same reasons, Scott, you said that he violated his oath and he should never be back in that office.”
He reiterated, “That’s why I’m upset for the man being in the Oval Office.”
Jennings stated he “happily” voted for Trump 3 times whereas Taylor was “trying to subvert the elected president of the United States,” which Taylor stated he “proudly” did, after which wished the previous official “good luck” with the DOJ investigation.
Jennings stated earlier within the present that “the fastest way” to get on tv as a Republican is to “crap” on the president.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), have all had public gripes with Trump. Among them are his “big, beautiful” invoice including trillions of {dollars} to the federal price range deficit, killing merely suspected drug smugglers with out due course of and preventing the discharge of categorised recordsdata on Epstein — who as soon as referred to as Trump his “closest friend.”
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