‘A Warning Shot’: Maggie Haberman Explains Why Trump Attacked Kayleigh McEnany

“It’s a warning shot to anybody else who might be around him or who was once around him and is seen as having cred with the right and with the MAGA movement for saying anything that’s based in fact that he doesn’t like,” Haberman instructed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in a clip posted by Mediaite. “That’s all that is.”

Following his victory over Nikki Haley in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries, the previous president hit out at McEnany over some commentary she’d given on Fox News.

“I don’t need any advice from RINO Kayleigh McEnany on Fox,” Trump wrote in a publish on his Truth Social platform late on Tuesday, utilizing an acronym for “Republican in name only.”

“Just had a GIANT VICTORY over a badly failing candidate, ‘Birdbrain,’ and she’s telling me what I can do better. Save your advice for Nikki!” he added.

McEnany, now a Fox News host, had provided Trump some compliment-laden recommendation throughout the community’s major evaluation. She advised he ought to assume forward to the overall election and acknowledge that there’s a section of Republican and unbiased voters that he has not captured.

“President Trump, I would go home tonight, I’d go to my victory party, I would celebrate, I’ve made history yet again. But then I’d go home and I’d look under the hood,” she mentioned.