'Always blowing himself up': Trump mocked as Wile E. Coyote by MS NOW's Jen Psaki
President Donald Turmp wanted a "bombshell moment" with his primetime speech about election interference, MS NOW's Jen Psaki said on Friday — but if an explosion happened, it was one more of the Looney Tunes variety.
"Remember that cartoon character, Wile E. Coyote?" said Psaki. "Okay, he spent every single episode putting together elaborate plans to chase the Road Runner, tying himself to rockets, to finally catch the Road Runner, and always blowing himself up in the process. It's kind of what happened to Trump."
The president, said Psaki, wanted his speech to "stand out" from six years of hollering about election fraud and not offering any proof. And he did it by declassifying a bunch of documents about Chinese interference in the election. But "not only did those documents not prove Trump's allegations, the documents actually seem to disprove a lot of Trump's points," she said.
For example, Psaki continued, "the intelligence community showcased how vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results ... and despite Trump's claims that China carried out, quote, 'the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in china's illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,' it turns out China only access data from seven states and did so through legal public records channels.
"And of course, there were also other documents reiterating the intel community's consensus that Beijing has not deployed influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the U.S. presidential election," said Psaki. Trump "hurt himself" by releasing that, she said, "sort of like Wile E. Coyote painting a tunnel on a rock wall only to run into it himself."
In fact, she added, "not only did the documents Trump release debunk his claim that foreign powers were trying to stop him from being elected," they revealed "the intelligence community believed that at least one foreign power was actively trying to help Trump get elected. Surprise everyone! And this won't be a surprise. Just like in 2016, Russia was trying to help Trump win."
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