Former Trump White House communications official Mike Dubke tried to defend Trump's back-and-forth stance on contraception this week on CNN — only to be laughed at by analyst Bakari Sellers.
This comes after Trump appeared to open the door to restricting birth control in an interview, but then swiftly reversed course after media attention and said he would do no such thing.
"In this case, I think it was very clear that the president did not [mean to say contraception]," said Dubke. "His campaign cleaned it up. But ... I also wish, and I think the American people also hope for this, is that when it is that obvious of a faux pas, whether it be on the right or the left, that the anchor clean it up. I mean, I — I'm — I'm a bit dubious at the anchor, was looking for some clickbait here in the way that he phrased the question and how we phrase the question to, frankly, to an individual who has had a lot on his mind this week and ben distracted by other items" — presumably referring to Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan.
Sellers responded to this by bursting out in laughter, while anchor Kate Bolduan took issue with Dubke's demand that news reporters clean up after Trump's mistakes.
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"In defense of all anchors, I ask the questions, and it is your job to listen to my question and to answer it because I promise you I will follow up," said Bolduan.
"If I was the Joe Biden campaign, look if you want Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Donald Trump deciding what your wife does with her body, re-elect Donald Trump," said Sellers. "They don't do well on this issue and they also don't do well on policy, which is why he stumbles. People vote for Donald Trump for something else. They vote for Donald Trump for that machismo, for that, what they believe to be strength. People don't vote for Donald Trump for policy depth because ... Trump has the policy depth of a shallow bathtub."
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