'Voodoo': Trump biographer exposes 'shell game' behind president's big bill

Asked by conservative commentator Charlie Sykes where the so-called "big, beautiful" bill stands, Donald Trump's biographer said we are "fully in the throes of voodoo."

Tim O'Brien, who spent massive amounts of time with Trump before writing TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, was interviewed by Sykes in a video published Sunday.

After saying we are "fully in the throes of voodoo," O'Brien added, "We are not in the throes of budget making."

Noting the $5 trillion federal debt, O'Brien said Republicans are trying to take a shortcut by not cutting any taxes in its new spending bill.

"Without doing any meaningful budget cutting," he said, this is a recipe for disaster.

He also flagged some dubious math involved in the marketing of the bill, saying the GOP has claimed its passage would mean cutting $11 trillion.

"I don't know how they get there," he said, before noting a GDP prediction that is "pure science fiction."

"And they're pretending that the tax cuts don't exist to get there. It's a shell game."