Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Monday busted Donald Trump’s declare in a current fundraising e mail that he’s being “forced off the campaign trail and into courtrooms” this week.
Trump will be the topic of two developments in court docket as oral arguments begin Tuesday when his attorneys will argue presidential immunity in his election interference case and last arguments start Thursday in his civil fraud trial in New York.
But McCaskill, showing in her position as an analyst on MSNBC, identified Trump is “attending these events not because he needs to, not because he has to, not because it’s in his legal best interests, but because he wants the coverage this week leading up to Iowa to be all about his narrative that he is a victim of government weaponization against him, that ‘They’re trying to keep me out of office, they’re trying to keep me from fighting for you.’”
Trump is “looking at the Iowa caucuses as his moment to definitively become the nominee,” she mentioned.
“We’re going to talk more about these events if he’s there, and he knows that,” McCaskill continued. “This is all political strategy on his point, it has nothing to do with his legal peril. It has everything with him wanting to become president. Because you know what? These arguments he’s making in front of these federal judges, if he’s president it all goes away, he waves a wand and there’s no more federal prosecution against him, no more convictions against him, nothing.”
Trump sees the courtroom appearances as “essential campaign stops,” she added.
MSNBC authorized analyst Lisa Rubin had agreed.
“They’re not obligations,” mentioned Rubin. “In fact, in none of these circumstances does former President Trump have to attend at all to the extent that he and his proxies are characterizing these as requirements or obligations.”
Trump will attend the immunity declare enchantment “solely as a spectator to the extent he makes political hay out of it outside the courtroom” and has “no formal role” there,” she mentioned.
In the civil trial, Trump “has no role there” both, Rubin added.
“It’s a series of arguments or presentations that will be made to Judge Arthur Engoron that was a nonjury trial,” she mentioned. “Presumably, when it’s over or on breaks, we can expect the former president to do what he’s done all along in that case, which is to face cameras in the courtroom hallway and turn that into somewhere between a runway and ongoing fundraiser as it goes along.”
