'So twisted': Nicolle Wallace slams Trump's courthouse press conferences and fundraising
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace returned to the airwaves Monday and was quick to convey her disgust at Donald Trump using courtrooms and courthouses to increase engagement in his 2024 election and score more campaign cash.
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) kicked off the conversation looking at the big cash demands coming from multiple court cases, which she argued prop up a victimhood narrative he uses to squeeze supporters for donations.
"When he was president, he used the East Room" of the White House," Wallace noted. "When he was a candidate, he used airport hangars. And now that he's an accused criminal, he's using courtrooms."
Legal analyst Lisa Rubin expressed frustration with press conferences Trump held in courthouse hallways.
"I would like to see a stronger hand from the New York court system, in particular, the office of court administration, which controls how anybody can use hallways or courtrooms," Rubin said.
"Particularly since he now needs...a babysitter in the form of the independent monitor and in the New York A.G. case," Rubin continued.
The court system could bar Trump from holding such press events and force him to file for his own permits or make the press follow him back to Trump Tower, Rubin noted.
She explained that multiple times per day, Trump would roll out of the courtroom to complain to cameras. If he went to the restroom, he'd address the press, she quipped.
"Now that has diminishing returns in terms of the fundraising," Rubin continued. "He could not sustain the numbers that he had at the beginning of this trial. And he had to keep coming up with ways to sort of get the press at the courthouse on unexciting days. We'll see what he comes up with this time."
"It is so twisted," Wallace said. "How does it benefit his fundraising numbers in March if he's able to hold a presser in the hall of a court where they're grappling with the fact he may pose a lethal threat to prosecutor other than Alvin Bragg, a witness, or a juror?"
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