Ex-Trump Attorney Tells CNN Trump Will Take Bombshell Ruling ‘Personally’ Because Of What Judges Called Him

Former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins that former President Donald Trump is likely taking the bombshell appeals court ruling “personally” because of that the judges called him in the opinion.

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Trump’s appeal in a 57-page opinion Tuesday in a blistering opinion that stunned many analysts with its force and clarity.

Among other things, the judges wrote in their order denying Trump’s claim of immunity that “For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. But any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as President no longer protects him against this prosecution.”

On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins asked Parlatore for his insight into Trump’s likely reaction, and Parlatore said the passage dubbing him “Citizen Trump” would get to him on a personal level:

COLLINS: You know Trump well. You worked for him. You represented him. There’s kind of like a special class, for all the attorneys, who worked for Donald Trump, I think, just based on covering them for so long.

I wonder how you think he read this today, the fact that he lost. That they rejected his arguments? That they referred to him as citizen Trump? I mean, how would you predict he’s responding to this tonight?

PARLATORE: I mean, I think that he’s probably taking it more personally, particularly the parts about citizen Trump. I think that he’s probably more concentrating on that.

But, ultimately, one would hope that his lawyers — and he had some very good lawyers on this particular issue, to try to refocus it on just the legal aspects. Have John Sauer go in and say, this is the standard, this is what we need to more focus on, than the personal.

The opinion was signed by all three judges on the panel: Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was nominated by President Joe Biden in January 2022 and confirmed in July 2022; Judge Florence Pan, nominated by Biden in May 2022 and confirmed in September 2022; and Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, who was appointed by then-President George H.W. Bush in 1990.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.