Taking a break from discussing new evidence of Donald Trump's cognitive decline, conservative CNN contributor S.E. Cupp changed gears and told a panel that there is not enough attention being paid to how the former president's money problems make him a national security risk.
Speaking with host Kate Bolduan, Cupp made reference to Trump having to scramble to come up with more than half a billion dollars to pay for appeals bonds as he contests his most recent court losses. And, she said, that makes him "vulnerable" to foreign manipulation.
"A couple of things Trump is going to have to do that he has no problem doing and has done before, which is kind of grift off of his own supporters, right? Trying to get them to pay in to help stop the steal," she explained. "He's really using a lot of that to line his own pockets."
"He's using the RNC as a personal piggybank, he's going to rely on the existing infrastructure and his own fans to help pull him out of this financial morass," she continued before adding, "But the thing that worries me, that I don't see a lot of people talking about, is the legal and financial jeopardy that this would-be-president is in now would seem to me a national security issue."
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"I think it's more dangerous than, just isn't it funny Trump could be bankrupted? Isn't it funny he's having to maybe use mismatched furniture?" she remarked. "Someone with that much to lose and who has to fork up that much cash, who has that many legal battles looming ahead?
"I think this is a really vulnerable, vulnerable person for our national security issues."
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