'It's weighing on him': Trump in a downward spiral as legal woes grow

During a surprisingly sympathetic discussion about Donald Trump's legal woes, MSNBC "Morning Joe," contributor Katty Kay claimed the former president is being crushed by the burden of trials he is facing and can only find solace in the crowds who attend his rallies — and even those have seen a fall in attendance.

With host Joe Scarborough noting the hearing in Manhattan on Monday in the so-called hush-money case is a criminal case where Trump could end up doing time in jail, he prompted Kay with, "I really do at times wonder, with all these things weighing down on one person, how the guy keeps going. I mean, it is incoming constantly."

"Yeah," Kay agreed. "Obviously, at this point, there are many on the legal side wishing we were dealing with the Jack Smith January 6th case or the Mar-a-Lago documents case, both of which I'm sure you'd agree, look more solid than the hush money case, but that's the case we have."

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"Even that, because you say it's a criminal case, that has to be weighing on Donald Trump," she continued. "It looks like it'll go ahead within the next month, even with this small delay. All of those things, the fact that he's not raising money, the complications around getting money from donors but some of it having to be siphoned off to pay his legal fees, the trials themselves, the prospect of losing a huge amount of his assets to pay this bond, it's very hard to imagine how that's not weighing on Donald Trump."

"All he can do, I guess, is take solace from the fact that when he turns up at those rallies — which are not as big as they were in 2020 or 2016, the crowds are not as huge that are greeting him as they were back then — he's still getting the adulation from his die-hard supporters," she added. "And he hasn't, from when you look at the polling, as remarkable as it might seen from 2020 to 2024, he doesn't seem to be losing much of that base."

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"It's hard to see how the pressures don't weigh on a 77-year-old man," she suggested. "The pressure of running for president is hard enough, lord knows. With all of this, as well, it's got to be tough."

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