Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen accused of mansplaining tirade after angry TV interview
15 Feb, 2021 05:30 AM
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Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen accused of mansplaining tirade after angry TV interview. Video / CBS News
Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen accused of mansplaining tirade after angry TV interview. Video / CBS News
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By: Frank Chung
A lawyer for former President Donald Trump has clashed with a TV anchor in a fiery post-acquittal interview.
Michael van der Veen spoke with CBS News host Lana Zak after the Senate voted to acquit Mr Trump on Saturday – but things quickly went off the rails after the Philadelphia lawyer took issue with the tone of one of Zak s questions.
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“We are a working-class party now,” Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley tweeted at 10:53 p.m. Eastern time on election night in November. “That’s the future.” A few minutes later, Fox called Arizona for Joe Biden, beginning a string of reversals for Donald Trump and pointing toward a future quite different than the one Hawley had probably imagined when he posted. Hawley arrived in the Senate two years into the Trump era, and since then has pitched an agenda built around the concerns of the common man and woman. Sympathizing with cultural grievances, as Hawley does in fighting internet pornography, is something at which Republicans have been skilled for decades. Addressing the economic disadvantages of the less-well-off has been a blind spot. While Hawley himself has resisted mandatory increases in the minimum wage, his political world has been heating up recently, and it is changing his politics. When he announced in
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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Goya CEO Robert Unanue. Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post via Getty Images
Goya CEO Robert Unanue now needs board permission to speak to the media, The New York Post and CNN reported.
Its board voted to silence him on Friday, two days after he told Fox Business the presidential election was unverified, the reports said.
Unanue confirmed to The Post that he would no longer speak publicly about politics, but declined to comment on any vote.
Robert Unanue, CEO of Latino food brand Goya Foods, will no longer be able to speak to the media without permission from the company s board, after he peddled baseless claims of voter fraud on Fox Business.