President Donald Turmp wanted a "bombshell moment" with his primetime speech about election interference, MS NOW's Jen Psaki said on Friday — but if an explosion happened, it was one more of the Looney Tunes variety.

"Remember that cartoon character, Wile E. Coyote?" said Psaki. "Okay, he spent every single episode putting together elaborate plans to chase the Road Runner, tying himself to rockets, to finally catch the Road Runner, and always blowing himself up in the process. It's kind of what happened to Trump."

The president, said Psaki, wanted his speech to "stand out" from six years of hollering about election fraud and not offering any proof. And he did it by declassifying a bunch of documents about Chinese interference in the election. But "not only did those documents not prove Trump's allegations, the documents actually seem to disprove a lot of Trump's points," she said.

For example, Psaki continued, "the intelligence community showcased how vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results ... and despite Trump's claims that China carried out, quote, 'the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in china's illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,' it turns out China only access data from seven states and did so through legal public records channels.

"And of course, there were also other documents reiterating the intel community's consensus that Beijing has not deployed influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the U.S. presidential election," said Psaki. Trump "hurt himself" by releasing that, she said, "sort of like Wile E. Coyote painting a tunnel on a rock wall only to run into it himself."

In fact, she added, "not only did the documents Trump release debunk his claim that foreign powers were trying to stop him from being elected," they revealed "the intelligence community believed that at least one foreign power was actively trying to help Trump get elected. Surprise everyone! And this won't be a surprise. Just like in 2016, Russia was trying to help Trump win."

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President Donald Trump's controversial Thursday night election speech has disrupted Republican congressional strategy.

According to Politico, Trump's address created particular difficulties for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Republican leaders have been attempting to walk back portions of Trump's SAVE America Act, which would impose new voting restrictions on American voters. Instead, they are pushing for a "clean" spending measure, according to the report.

Among his new proposals, Johnson suggested funding the government well ahead of the normal Sept. 30 deadline and has been privately lobbying Trump for endorsement, according to Politico's anonymous sources. Johnson allegedly hopes this triggers a shutdown fight before the midterms, which would benefit Republicans politically.

"House GOP leaders are trying to put that budget resolution on the floor next week, too — setting up some serious whip operations for leaders trying to get buy-in from all corners of their conference on both measures," Politico wrote.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) further complicated matters Thursday, responding skeptically to Johnson's claims about Senate adoption of the House budget framework before the August recess, the publication added.

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