You're looking at live pictures once again outside a courtroom
in New York,
where Donna, where the closing arguments in the Donald Trump
civil trial are underway as we speak.
He also on the way going into the courtroom,
he spoke last hour. Listen to some of what he
said.
It's a very unfair trial.
Nobody's seen anything like this.
I don't think they've ever seen anything like this.
I really have no rights and it's and nobody,
nobody thinks it's constitutional. It's interference,
it's political interference and it's something that shouldn't be allowed.
Donald Trump repeating what we've heard often as he's going
in,
making legal misstatements and not telling the truth on the
legal case in front of him,
saying that he has no rights.
Clearly he does. He's going through this trial process as
it's been going on for now 11 weeks.
But at the same time,
we are seeing a collision truly of the campaign trail
and the courtroom,
which at this point for Donald Trump are one and
the same.
Let's get some perspective on this and some reaction to
what we're seeing.
Donald Trump's former deputy press secretary,
Sarah Matthews is joining me right now.
Sarah. The legal fight?
Is essentially the entire campaign strategy for Donald Trump right
now and we're seeing that once again come into focus
today.
What's your reaction to what you,
what you have heard today and the fact that his,
his attorney right out of the gate tried to make
the case in closing arguments that this was a political
trial trying to further a political agenda?
I think that's going to be the message that we're
going to hear from Donald Trump and his attorneys and
all of the cases.
While I do think that some of the cases that
he's facing tend to be a little bit more political
in nature than others,
I think most of them are substantive and have evidence
to back them up and warrant the charges.
But I think that in this case in particular,
it was interesting to hear him say before he entered
the courtroom that it was unconstitutional and that they had
no right.
I mean this just is straight out of his victim
playbook where he just acts like the victim acts like
that he.
Should face no accountability for any of his actions and
it's going to be,
I think, the message that we're going to see moving
forward from him and his campaign on the campaign trail.