Former FBI agent and Donald Trump foe Peter Strzok fully expects the ex-president to begin throwing people under the bus to save himself.
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace explained on Wednesday that even his father Fred Trump's legacy wasn't safe from his son – and that his relationship with his own kids will be the same.
"I know that the dynamic was complicated, but he is nothing, literally and actually nothing, without his father," she said. "I think watching him throw his kids under the bus is something that Trump will seek to normalize."
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She recalled Trump's deposition in the ongoing fraud trial in New York, in which he said he was busy running the country and saving the United States from potential nuclear holocaust.
"That's what he was busy doing while his kids were running the company," said Wallace. "I feel like he is already socializing and conditioning his supporters to think there is nothing wrong with that."
Strzok explained that, given what people have witnessed from Trump so far, his setting up his adult kids to take the brunt of the blame should be no surprise.
"His past practice should surprise no one, that there is nobody above Trump, throwing them overboard or using them if he thinks it will help him or certainly if it will save him," he said.
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He recalled reports from 2018 in which the New York Times and Washington Post were exposing the false valuations of Trump's real estate. Now, in New York, there is an "extraordinarily complex case" unfolding, he said.
"My question is, where is the federal investigative government?" Strzok asked. "Where is the IRS? Where is the Department of Justice, whether it's from that reporting in 2018, whether it's the referral from Letitia James of all this information? If there are these manifest tax problems at a New York state level, I have to believe between federal tax law and federal financial institution fraud ...I have to think there are violations there."
"And, you know, it makes me wonder whether that's happening, or whether they are just content to leave that to New York state," Strzok closed.
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