Make up your thoughts, Kasie Hunt!
First, Hunt opened Tuesday’s CNN This Morning by complaining that, in selecting nominees to fill authorities positions in his coming administration, loyalty will likely be of prime significance to President-elect Donald Trump. However after saying that Trump has reportedly named Marco Rubio as his Secretary of State, Hunt ran clips of the conflict between the 2 again through the 2016 major.
Oblivious to her hypocrisy, Hunt ran a mash-up of statements Trump has made over time indicating the emphasis he locations on that high quality. Which was quickly adopted up with video of Trump mocking Rubio as “Little Marco,” and Rubio’s clap again, saying that Trump has small arms — “and you recognize what they are saying about males with small arms.”
So which is it, Kasie? Does Trump make loyalty his prime prerequisite–or perhaps not?
Hunt queried Republican Doug Heye as to how Trump may probably make Rubio a high insider, given their private historical past. Heye was a By no means Trumper from method again in 2016. Even so, he served up a brief however gorgeous retort: “Properly, how did Kamala Harris come again for Joe Biden after she knifed him within the presidential debate?”
Zing!
Kamala’s 2020 marketing campaign collapsed earlier than the primary votes have been even solid. However she did get off the first season’s most memorable line.
In a 2015 debate, Harris ripped Biden for siding with segregationist southern senators in opposing college bussing. She received off her well-known line, “That little lady was me,” describing her expertise as a younger schoolgirl who had been bussed.
And regardless of Dr. Jill reportedly responding to Kamala’s assault by suggesting she go “f-” herself, and her opposition to the choose, Biden selected Harris as his VP.
So, yup: rating one for Doug Heye!
The transcript is beneath. Click on “broaden” to learn:
CNN This Morning
11/12/24
6:00 am ETKASIE HUNT: The second Trump White Home is taking form, as Donald Trump picks extra cupboard members and different excessive rating officers. The President-elect making these resolution with one key trait at high of thoughts.
DONALD TRUMP: Loyal, we may use some extra loyalty. I’ll inform you that . . . I really like loyalty . . . Folks in politics might be very disloyal. I’ve by no means seen something prefer it . . . Loyalty. You realize, a few of these individuals have like a ten% loyalty, that means in the event that they sneeze within the improper route, they’re gone . . . I’d have wiped the ground with the blokes who weren’t loyal. Which I’ll now do. Which is nice. You realize, I really like getting even . . . If given the chance, I’ll get even with some individuals who have been disloyal to me. I imply, I had a gaggle of people that have been disloyal —
REPORTER: How do you outline disloyal?
TRUMP: They did not come to my assist.
HUNT: Loyalty. A high quality that Donald ttrump has prized, you possibly can see there, all through his life, and one which appears to be the important thing to getting a job within the second Trump White Home.
Shortly after the election, Mike Davis, a conservative and authorized operative, and doable contender for Lawyer Basic, wrote this on Twitter, now X. Expensive Trump job seekers earlier than asking me for assist, I’ll ask you to offer me particular and concrete proof of your loyalty to Trump, finish quote.
The headline this morning within the Wall Avenue Journal, quote, Loyalty Is Widespread Thread as Ttrump Fills International Coverage, Immigration Jobs.
And CNN’sSteven Collinson scripting this this morning. Quote: every choice or anticipated choose to date has one factor in frequent: Extremely-loyalty to Trump, particularly throughout his indictment-strewn post-presidency. Every individual is understood for paying the form of exaggerated homage in tv interviews that the president-elect adores. A way of betayal usually burned in Trump’s first time period when members of presidency prioritized their oath to the Structure over their fealty to him.
In a single day, CNN realized Trump is more likely to choose Marco Rubio as his Secretary of State, in accordance to a couple sources accustomed to his pondering.
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However it’s possible you’ll bear in mind they ran towards one another for president again in 2016. Let’s take just a little stroll down reminiscence lane. No pun supposed on that “little.” Watch this.
MARCO RUBIO: Have you ever seen his arms? They’re like this. And you recognize what they are saying about males with small arms. You possibly can’t belief them.
TRUMP: Take a look at these arms, are they small arms? And he referred to my arms. He mentioned in the event that they’re small, one thing else should be small. I assure you there is no drawback. I assure it. So I have a look at him, I mentioned [looking down] Marco. These arms can hit a golf ball 285 yards. I wish to present the dimensions of my arms. How I may seize him. How I may seize him.
HUNT: So we did not hear him use “Little Marco,” however that was the nickname.
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So Doug, how do you come again from this sort of a factor with Trump if you’re Marco Rubio? How is it that he’s within the interior circle, contemplating these [inaudible]?
DOUG HEYE: Properly, how did Kamala Harris come again for Joe Biden after she knifed him within the presidential debate?
