'Curtain has been pulled down': How Trump's legal woes could impact him in the election

Joining us now is Brendan Buck, former press secretary for bner and Ryan, also an MSNBC political analyst, and Simone Sanders Townsen, weekend co-anchor here on MSNBC. I really want to see that show. She also previously served as vice chief spokesperson. president harris or brandan this trial is already changing the way

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is forced to campaign stopped to greet construction workers and some of his supporters outside the new JP Morgan building yesterday went to a warehouse on monday How do you see the media spectacle of this trial? the race, well Donald Trump has never had a problem getting attention and I guess he's doing that again, but I had to disagree with Stuart on this one.

I don't think this is helpful in any way for Donald Trump to be spending his days in court. Yes, he likes to play the victim, but we are no longer in the primaries. Yes, he is capable of irritating Republicans and dispatching his opponents. in the primaries quite easily, but now we are in a general

election

and our own NBC poll has shown that the biggest vulnerability that Donald Trump has in a general

election

is these accusations, these court cases and whether this is the context in the that we see Donald Trump every day walking in and out of a courtroom that doesn't help him while you know it limits his ability to attack Joe Biden, who has a lot of vulnerabilities and is trying to do what he can standing outside attacking Biden, but Look, we have Wall for all the Donald Trump coverage, supposedly having paid money to keep quiet like that is not helpful to him.

I think in no context. I mean, Simone is not useful in any context. Is there any context in which the Biden campaign can respond to this changing campaign style? Yeah, I mean, I think we saw the The Answer Was Correct while Donald Trump was in the courtroom this week. The president was in Florida talking about the abortion ban, the Six and Us abortion ban that's about to go into effect next week in that state, but also about the broader health care implications. crisis facing women across this country because the man in the courtroom supported the reversal of Roor v.

Wade through the decision to make, we have seen that the president can go out and campaign while Donald Trump has to sit in the Courtroom I agree with Brendan too and love Stuart. I don't agree with him on this. I think Donald Trump seems diminished, he seems small. You know, I've worked on a lot of presidential campaigns and I've worked on a lot of presidential campaigns. served in campaigns for people running for executive positions, whether governor, lieutenant governor, mayor, right? You always want to make sure your candidate looks and you appear like an executive. Donald Trump doesn't look presidential in bad fluorescent lighting. that hallway while he rails against the Machine and says his constitutional rights are being trampled and he can't speak even though there's a camera literally outside, he, he, he does, he looks diminished and, frankly, Greatness is smoke and the mirror that has um I think Donald Trump has marketed himself so skillfully as you know, this larger than life personality.

He came out as a professional wrestler as a professional wrestler in 2016 at the RNC convention now looking more like the Wizard of Oz. wizard, the

curtain

has come down and The Wizard is exposed and The Wizard is just a man, a man in the courtroom, yes Brandon, meanwhile in Pennsylvania, over 150,000 registered Republicans voted for Nikki Haley in the primary from that state this week. Do you see something in that? yeah, I think you can draw a direct line between that and what's happening here: he's reminding everyone what they don't like about him, we're in an era of significant negative partisanship, and we know both candidates have a lot of people that she's not, she's not high on any of them and it's this situation where the more someone appears in the media, the more we talk about them, the more people remember that they don't like them. and the same goes for Joe Biden.

I think the more Joe Biden is out there, you actually see his numbers soften a little bit. Certainly, having Donald Trump every day reminding people what they don't like about him, you know. he was involved in all these illicit affairs uh that he has questionable morals and ethics um that he is potentially criminal are all the reasons why they didn't like him the first time why they probably didn't vote for him the last time um so you know normally you want being able to dominate the conversation you want to set the terms you want to be in the front shaping the conversation but this is a situation where I don't know if being in the front helps you and it certainly doesn't help you with the people you've

been

bothering for the last eight years for frankly revoking everything his party stood for, like the people who voted for Nikki Haley Brandon buckin Simone Sanders Townsen.

One thing we can all agree on is that the weekend is the best. program to watch it with Simone and everyone else, so thank you all, it's great to see you for