During a recent appearance on CNN, New York Times scribe Maggie Haberman explained how Donald Trump gave Democrats plenty of soundbites during yesterday's press conference.
Donald Trump has always shown himself to be the ultimate victim. So, while he did not have to be in a New York courtroom yesterday, he chose to appear and then answer questions afterwards. The former President was his normal offensive self.
Kaitlan Collins asked Haberman about the decision, and she responded:
"I don’t know of anyone who was recommending that he do this. It’s also worth noting he didn’t have to be in court today. He chose to go to this hearing. And I understand it. He has made it very clear he wants to be at legal proceedings connected to him. That is invariably going to draw attention to this news conference and he didn’t take questions from us as… All this is going to do is call more attention to that as well at a moment when he is trailing badly with women in polls."
The New York Times writer continued:
"He thinks that he is his own best defender both in a courtroom and on television, and he likes to be in front of cameras. There are times when that aligns with good politics for him. And then there are times when it does not…
Now, this may not matter because there’s so much baked in with him and it’s very hard to imagine how many actual undecided voters there are. I think there are people who are leaning in one direction or another and may say that they’re undecided, but they’re really persuadable. This is not generally a lot of information that you would put out there and he just gave the Harris team a bunch of soundbites to use in ads."