Jen Psaki Says Trump ‘Already Is Fundraising’ Off of his latest Criminal Indictment

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Read more about the whole thing here.Meanwhile back on MSNBC, Hayes asked Psaki, “I wonder how you think about the Biden administration handles this, how Democrats handle this, how Republicans in Congress handle this.”“This isn’t Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, who is not part of the Biden administration,” Hayes continued, referring to the District Attorney overseeing Trump’s criminal fraud case in New York City. “You can heap scorn on him and you can say nasty things about him, with all sorts of, you know, pretty gross, racist undertones. [But] this is the Justice Department of the United States, that Joe Biden is the president of at the moment.”“Exactly,” Psaki replied, “I mean look, I think Trump is clearly — he already is fundraising off of this, or attempting to, and he is clearly going to try to gather the base around him as he did around the indictment by Alvin Bragg.”“This case is different, for a range of reasons.

One of them, just on the pure messaging standpoint, a case where people are trying to communicate publicly and try and critique about how a former president may have paid hush money to an adult film star, is a bit more complicated than this,” Psaki continued.“Which is somebody obstructing justice, somebody withholding classified documents, potentially sharing them in a way that could harm our national security, that is different.

And we should acknowledge that, in terms of how it will be communicated,” Psaki said.“In terms of the White House, the way that I expect they will handle it,” she said, “is, Joe Biden is an institutionalist, he believes in the separation of the branches of government, and I suspect that they will be very limited in anything they say about this at all.