CNN’s Begala: Trump a different kind of president like OJ’s a different kind of football player

CNN political analyst Paul Begala on Thursday mocked Jeffrey Lord for calling President Trump a “different kind of president,” comparing it to saying O.J. Simpson is a “different kind of football player.”

“Jeffrey Lord says he’s a different kind of president, well he is — O.J. Simpson is a different kind of football player,” Begala said on CNN’s “New Day.”

“That doesn’t make him a better person; that doesn’t make Mr. Trump a better president.”

{mosads}Begala criticized Trump’s new comments ripping Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s recusal from the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, saying that Trump is undermining the law.

“It’s our business when he attacks the rule of law,” Begala said. “In this remarkable interview … we saw him attack the attorney general of the United States, Jeff Sessions; the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein; the former FBI director, James Comey; the acting FBI director, Andy McCabe; and the special counsel.”

Begala added that the president is “a man who has decided to make an all-out assault on the rule of law” because “it’s closing in on him because he knows he’s guilty.”

Trump told The New York Times in an interview Wednesday that he would not have picked Sessions as his attorney general had he known Sessions would recuse himself from the investigations into Russian election interference, calling the recusal “very unfair” to himself.

Sessions recused himself from the federal investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow in March after it was revealed that he failed to disclose to the Senate two meetings with the Russian ambassador while Sessions was a surrogate for Trump’s campaign.

“Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,” Trump said.

Begala’s criticism comes as Simpson is up for parole Thursday after being convicted of a robbery. He faced trial in the 1990s for the death of his ex-wife and her friend, but was acquitted.