Former President Donald Trump's interview with Fox News's Bret Baier was more like a confession. While the twice-impeached twice-indicted former President's legal advisers are freaking the fuck out, Trump has been privately boasting about how well he performed in the interview. Trump somehow thinks he appeared "tough" in the interview, even though he was giving Special Counsel Jack Smith more evidence against him.
Via the Rolling Stone:
In the hours after his interview with Brett Baier aired on Monday, Trump privately boasted about how well he thought he performed. As he asked others if they had caught the interview and what they thought of it, the former President and 2024 GOP frontrunner said the tension and parrying with Baier made him look tough, creating buzzy, attention-grabbing television, two sources with knowledge of the situation tell Rolling Stone.
Trump's legal advisers weren't pleased with Trump's performance.
Where Trump saw buzz, people hoping to keep him out of legal jeopardy saw trouble. Several of the ex-president's current and former legal advisers watched on with exasperated sighs, and in some cases terror, according to three people familiar with the matter.
One lawyer working in Trump's orbit messaged Rolling Stone shortly after the interview first aired, predicting the Fox clip would be brought up by prosecutors at trial."It was a disaster, if you are his lawyer," says Ty Cobb, a former top Trump White House lawyer during a different special counsel probe. "And they'll have more of those, because they won't be able to keep him quiet…Trump gave the government an enormous gift [in that Fox interview], and they will be able to use what he said to assist them in proving the former President's intent as to virtually all the charges in the Mar-a-Lago indictment."
Jinkies, you don't think this is why Trump has been having a difficult time finding lawyers to represent him, do you?
During the interview, Trump said, "The only way NARA could ever get this stuff, this back, would be please, please, please, could we have it back?" Baier held his feet to the fire.
