Barbara Res, a former longtime prime govt within the Trump Group, on Sunday spelled out how Donald Trump will possible see a possibility following the $355 million judgment in his civil fraud trial.
Res final 12 months argued that Trump loved being topic to the authorized processes and with the ability to play the sufferer.
MSNBC’s Ali Velhi requested her if that was nonetheless the case.
“I don’t suppose he likes getting buffeted round and issues being mentioned about him which are so terrible,” mentioned Res, a reference to Decide Arthur Engoron’s ruling on Trump’s routine overinflation of the value of his property for monetary achieve. Engoron mentioned the four-times-indicted Trump’s “full lack of contrition and regret borders on pathological.”
“However I believe that he’s OK with it to the extent that he can spin it and he’s already began that,” she continued.
“I believe in his coronary heart he believes, one, he’s gonna get away with it, and two, he can make cash off of this in some way, getting extra fundraising, extra folks to really feel sorry for him,” added Res, who wrote “Tower of Lies” about her 18 years working for Trump.
Velshi requested Res if the parable of Trump being a enterprise genius had now been firmly busted.
Nothing goes to alter the view of his supporters, she replied, who have been made up of hardcore MAGA followers after which rich folks “who don’t care what occurs to the Structure” so long as taxes are low and laws are carried out away with.
Trump is the Pied Piper, she claimed, and somebody whose emergence on the political scene within the mid-2010s had emboldened folks to flaunt their racism, xenophobia and sexism.
“They love him for that,” she mentioned, including that “they imagine he’s the second coming.”
It’s “unbelievable,” responded Velshi.
Watch the interview right here:
