'A disaster for the guy': Ex-Trump official shows why upcoming case spells trouble
February 15, 2024
Former President Donald Trump's upcoming criminal trials, including the bookkeeping fraud and hush payments case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg slated for late March, are going to hurt him politically in ways people are only starting to get their head around, former Trump White House communications official Anthony Scaramucci told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.
"Do you think this — he's saying this hurts him on the campaign trail," said Cooper. "He has been able to make any court appearance into a campaign appearance."
"It really does hurt him, though, because it's killing him with the donors, the RNC, it's killing him with the large-donor community," said Scaramucci.
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"He is fundraising off this with small donors," Cooper offered.
"He is, but the incremental fundraising — he's now turning those lemon rinds into lemonade," said Scaramucci. "It's very hard, Anderson, and so he knows that a path to the presidency requires way more money than he's currently raising. And so this does not help them at all. Moreover, he'll be in that courtroom for two months. He makes no fundraising calls, if you talk to any of the big donors. And any of the big donors had talked to Ronna Romney McDaniel, they don't want to give her any money. And so this is a disaster for the guy."
"Now, he's been lucky," Scaramucci added. "He's got the distraction going on in Georgia. But Michael Cohen has been fairly thorough with the prosecution about exactly what happened. And let's not anybody forget, Michael Cohen served jail time for what happened."
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