One of President Donald Trump's staunchest supporters on television admitted on Tuesday that he couldn't defend the president's latest outburst.
David Urban, a GOP strategist, was asked about a comment Trump made to a reporter on Air Force One on Monday during an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." Trump called the reporter a "piggy" and told her to "be quiet" after she asked a question about the Jeffrey Epstein files.
"There's no excuse for that, right? No excuse for calling anybody piggy," Urban said on Tuesday. "It's my understanding that one reporter interrupted another reporter. The president got angry with that. And it was two female reporters. But again, no excuse for calling anybody those names. It's just it's kind of silly and distracts from so many things."
Trump's dustup with the reporter happened at a time when the president is facing significant pressure to release the Epstein files, as he promised to do on the campaign.
Congress voted in a veto-proof majority on legislation that allows for the files to be released on Tuesday. It remains unclear when Trump plans to sign the bill.
