Donald Trump attempted to project strength and confidence during a rally at Madison Square Garden to overcome a lack of confidence in his re-election chances, according to one of his former advisers.
The former president appeared onstage in his hometown of New York City Sunday after speaker after speaker used violent and racist rhetoric to attack minority groups and political opponents. But former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" he saw Trump faking his overconfidence.
"I'm a little contrarian with this," Scaramucci said. "I think he thinks he is going to lose. You'll say to me, why do you think that? Because there is an overbite. It's like Shakespeare – 'you protest too much.' He's saying he is going to win by, 'Oh, by the way, we have this little secret, me and the speaker, we have this little speaker [of the House Mike Johnson].'"
Trump suggested he had a secret agreement with Johnson to possibly declare a contingent election in the House to declare him the winner regardless of the results, and Scaramucci said that was a telling declaration.
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"In his heart, he doesn't see himself winning," Scaramucci said. "You can see by the whole exaggeration of everything that's going on, there's too much of an overconfident overbite. You know, you were showing clips of [Mitt] Romney's campaign. I was on the campaign. We were overconfident because we were sitting in the Fox News silo. These guys are overconfident based on nothing other than the fact they need to project that, because if he loses, they want to chip out there to contest the election."
"That's what I really think," he added. "I think he thinks he's going to lose. I didn't say he was going to lose, I think he thinks he is going to lose."
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