Trump will 'continue to hit Ron DeSantis until he is no longer breathing': CNN analyst

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Trump will 'continue to hit Ron DeSantis until he is no longer breathing': CNN analyst
Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis (Trump photo via AFP, DeSantis photo via Shutterstock)

A CNN panel discussing Gov. Ron DeSantis' flailing campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination noted that Donald Trump remains relentless in his attacks on the Florida governor.

Speaking with "Inside Politics" host Dana Bash, CNN political analyst Kristen Holmes suggested that the former president seems to want to damage DeSantis' political future irretrievably.

With host Bash pointing out that a decent showing in the Iowa caucuses might be DeSantis' last hope, the CNN analyst admitted Trump's people hinted the former president would continue his vendetta.

"I think that Donald Trump is going to continue to hit Ron DeSantis until he is no longer breathing at all, which is essentially what his advisers have told me," she explained after watching a clip of the former president in Iowa over the weekend.

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"When you look at where the poll numbers have gone, it seems actually strange that Donald Trump would still be focused on Ron DeSantis, especially given Nikki Haley's surge. She seems to be climbing in multiple states, but he has remained fixated on Ron DeSantis," she continued.

She then added, "Part of that is likely because of the disloyalty factor that he feels, that he thought he [DeSantis] should have never run and, if he did, he should have called him first to talk to him."

"Clearly, for Donald Trump, things are personal and he wants to see him lose," she concluded.

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Alarm as Trump caught studying 'Kennedy Center DEM-' plans: 'He must be stopped'

President Donald Trump was photographed aboard Air Force One looking at a poster board that read "Kennedy Center DEM-."

On Wednesday night, Trump was heading back from a rally for GOP candidate Michael Whatley when AFP photographer Brendan Smialowski snapped a picture through one of the Air Force One windows that caught him studying a large placard.

Commentators pointed out that the top of the poster clearly read "Kennedy Center" and that the bottom seemed to be some kind of designs or blueprints, but what alarmed them was that the sign also seemed to have the letters "DEM" spelling out an unfinished word next to "Kennedy Center."

"As someone pointed out to me, it looks like the placard could read 'Kennedy Center DEMOLITION,'" journalist Aaron Rupar noted in a post on X.

"Kennedy Center Demolition?" asked foreign policy reporter Laura Rozen. "That is what he is focused on while gas prices rising, interest rate rising, he can't get a deal with Canada much less Iran."

She noted in another post, "This is the politically weak, damaged ego Xi will be meeting with a week from today," referring to the upcoming visit of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

"Looks like backhoes. Guessing it says 'Kennedy Center DEMOLITION,'" agreed disinformation expert and Kash Patel foe Jim Stewartson. "He is a criminal saboteur. He must be stopped."

"If the next letter on that posterboard is an 'O,' the word would likely be 'demolition,'" political journalist Jonathan Nicholson similarly pointed out. "And you put that together with Trump's 'never ask permission, maybe forgiveness' with what was seen earlier in the day and..."

Nicholson was referring to the news, which Ben Meiselas from MeidasTouch reported, that a legal observer declared in a court document, under penalty of perjury, that she witnessed a forklift repeatedly crashing into the pillars of the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, hours before Trump was seen with the ominous poster board.

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Scott Jennings humiliated as CNN panel laughs at his 'comedic' Trump hypothetical

Conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings botched an attempt to defend President Donald Trump's tariffs with a hypothetical that led to everyone laughing in his face.

On Wednesday, Jennings was part of the roundtable on CNN Newsnight, and he tried to back up Trump's handling of the economy by posing a question to the other pundits, including former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Democratic political strategist Bakari Sellers.

"I have a sincere question for you because you all very concerned about the tariffs as taxes," Jennings said, referring to critics' argument that tariffs function as a tax on American consumers because importers pass the cost along as higher prices. "If Donald Trump tomorrow said, 'I'll trade you elimination of all tariffs for elimination of all corporate income taxes,' would you take the deal?"

The panel responded with faces of confusion. De Blasio squinted his eyes and turned his head sideways while Garcia-Navarro threw her hands up and stared blankly at Jennings. No one responded for several seconds until host Abby Phillip asked, "What is that, Scott?"

"Would you take all taxes down to zero?" Jennings asked. De Blasio, still squinting, shook his head and said, "No," while Garcia-Navarro waved the question away.

"What is the point of that hypothetical, Scott?" Phillip asked. As Jennings took himself seriously, everyone else at the table began cracking up as he tried to explain, "The point is this, because you're mad about certain taxes, but every Democrat constantly argues for tax increases on corporations against tariffs. It makes no sense."

"Scott, you're the conservative at this table. That's why this is so comedic," Phillip explained while Jennings, with an angry expression, turned to Sellers, who was laughing with the other pundits still, and yelled, "Do you not understand this? It's a very simple argument!"

"You have to bend over backwards to explain the conservative rationale for tariffs, and I don't see you doing it," Phillip said. "You keep telling me this is what Trump believes."

'The show is dead': CBS insider calls Bari Weiss' '60 Minutes' a sewn-up 'Frankenstein'

CBS News insiders are sounding the alarm over Bari Weiss' revamped '60 Minutes,' with one senior staffer declaring the show already "dead."

The grim verdict came from an unnamed CBS News senior staffer who spoke with media columnist Justin Baragona in a Wednesday article for his Zeteo newsletter "Ragebait."

"The show is dead. We're just looking at some Frankenstein of bits sewn together of mismatched pieces," the staffer told Baragona. "I think the season is in trouble."

The doom-saying followed the network's own upbeat press release about the premiere, which one CBS reporter mocked in an all-caps text to Baragona.

"WELCOME TO THE SPIN ZONE!!!" the reporter wrote, according to Baragona.

Staffers have reason to worry. The season debut of Weiss' overhauled '60 Minutes' pulled in the worst premiere ratings this century, according to final Nielsen figures. The newsmagazine drew about 7.9 million total viewers, down roughly 21 percent from last year's premiere, with a steeper 33 percent drop in the key 25-to-54 demographic that advertisers pay a premium to reach.

The internal gloom has been building since Weiss took over CBS News earlier this year and veteran producers and correspondents headed for the exits. One staffer previously told Baragona that anchor Norah O'Donnell was "willing to play the part of dimwit reporter used as a propaganda tool."

Weiss and her boss, Paramount CEO David Ellison, have drawn criticism for their ties to President Donald Trump and his administration, and critics blamed the ratings slide on that leadership rather than the competing NFL games that aired that same Sunday.

"Nearly 2 million people collectively just said, f— you Bari Weiss," a CBS News senior staffer told Baragona, referring to the loss of viewers between last season's '60 Minutes' premiere and this year's. "And also, f— you David Ellison."

Online, the schadenfreude was thick. "Bari is a loser," journalist and radio host Doug Henwood wrote. Author Don Winslow needled, "Is this called winning??"

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