Trump's 'beyond laughable' attack on judge's clerk 'shows how scared he is': DC insider
Donald Trump drew a rebuke from the judge overseeing his fraud case after he targeted a courthouse staffer online, and MSNBC's Claire McCaskill said that showed how shaken the former president was by the lawsuit threatening his livelihood.
Judge Arthur Engoron, who found last week that New York attorney general Letitia James had proven the fraud claims against Trump and his two adult sons, ordered the ex-president to take down a Truth Social post smearing his clerk and banned him from making additional comments about his staff, and McCaskill told "Morning Joe" his attack was telling.
"This latest episode just shows how shook Trump is," McCaskill said. "This is cutting to the very core of his rationale for existence, and that has always been about lying about how successful he is and lying about the value of his businesses, and his self worth is so tied up in this thing that this has really, I think more so than anything else, probably more so than some of the criminal indictments, because he's living in la-la land."
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Trump claimed the judge's clerk was the "girlfriend" of Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), based only on a photo of them together at a public event, and McCaskill dismissed that baseless allegation as ridiculous.
"I can't decide whether to laugh or cry," said McCaskill, who served in the Senate with Schumer. "The notion that Chuck Schumer would be carrying off as someone -- if you knew Chuck and Iris like I know Chuck and Iris and their two daughters and their daughter's families, there is not a more close-knit family in America. Iris is his North Star, his best friend, his confidante and, frankly, she is smarter than he is, and this notion that somehow -- it is just beyond laughable."
"The fact that he would do that shows how scared he is to his very core," McCaskill added, "that it's all coming out in the wash and this judge is not going to play games. He's got an incredible reputation for being exacting and fair and thorough, and he's not going to put up with this."
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