CNN’s Kaitlan Collins grilled Rep. Bob Good about his previous feedback on Donald Trump after the Virginia Republican threw his help behind the previous president.
Good, chair of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, had initially endorsed Ron DeSantis within the 2024 presidential race. Shortly after the Florida governor ended his marketing campaign on Sunday, Good supplied his “complete and total endorsement” for Trump, calling him the “greatest president of my lifetime.”
On CNN’s “The Source” Monday, Collins identified to Good, “You are on camera very critical of Donald Trump.”
Good argued that the video had been deceptively edited by a marketing campaign opponent “to take out the complimentary praise statements that I said about President Trump.”
Collins requested, “So you didn’t say those things that you’re on camera saying?”
Good replied, “You take part of the sentences out, and you get a different conclusion from that sentence or a different inference from that sentence.”
Collins let viewers be the choose.
She performed a clip of Good by which he stated: “I decided to endorse DeSantis in May because I felt like, you know what, I can’t sit by and watch and then regret that we nominated Trump.”
Good insisted that the video was deceptive as a result of it “takes out the part where I praise President Trump and I said, ‘He was the greatest president of my lifetime.’”
He stated he had supported DeSantis as a result of he believed the Florida governor had higher probabilities of successful battleground states.
Good’s preliminary endorsement of DeSantis angered some Trump allies, together with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who was ousted from the House Freedom Caucus in July.
The video of Good that Collins was referring to was posted on-line anonymously and edited to point out numerous excerpts from a dialog Good was having about Trump. The captions claimed it was shot at a marketing campaign occasion in Mineral, Virginia, on Oct. 21.
“You’re asking me privately, I don’t say this in public,” he stated at one level within the video.
Greene shared the footage in December, calling Good a “disloyal fake MAGA Trump traitor.”
