A pro-Trump CNN panelist raised eyebrows when he detailed a perceived plot to undermine the president that apparently goes all the way to the heart of the Vatican. “This is 100 percent political, OK?” Hal Lambert, a Republican donor and member of Trump’s 2017 Inaugural Committee, told his astounded fellow panelists and host Abby Phillip on Monday night. “This is all about trying to hurt President Trump’s Catholic vote during the midterms and Republicans in the midterms.” Lambert then encouraged the other panelists to “play out the dots here” on the supposed Vatican plot to hurt Trump, noting that David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s former chief strategist, visited Pope Leo XIV last week, and that there is now talk of former President Barack Obama himself heading to the Vatican sometime in the near future.