CNN's resident MAGA foil Scott Jennings scorched by colleagues for claiming: 'I'm just a journalist'

Source: The Independent

CNN’s resident MAGA foil Scott Jennings scorched by colleagues for claiming: ‘I’m just a journalist’

The conservative commentator and CNN’s Richard Quest, traded barbs before the correspondent returned to on-air shoe-waving

Katie Hawkinson
in Washington, D.C.
Thursday 31 July 2025 17:55 BST

CNN’s resident MAGA foil, Scott Jennings, was scorched by his network colleagues Wednesday night after claiming to be “a journalist.”

A NewsNight panel, hosted by anchor Abby Phillip, erupted into chaos as Jennings and Richard Quest, CNN’s international business correspondent, traded barbs over the effects of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs — culminating, once again, in some exuberant shoe-waving live on-air.

Jennings, a former political adviser to President George W. Bush and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell — who is a staunch Trump supporter — often spars with his fellow, more liberal commentators and CNN anchors

Jennings was defending Trump’s tariffs by citing the Commerce Department’s new report that U.S. gross domestic product — the total value of all the goods and services — grew at a 3 percent rate from April to June, indicating economic growth, before he claimed: “I’m just a journalist.”

“No, you’re not,” Quest interrupted.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cnn-scott-jennings-trump-tariffs-b2799696.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cnn-resident-maga-foil-scott-163919409.html