Former Sen. Claire McCaskill Exposes Trump’s New Court Whine For What It Really Is

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Monday busted Donald Trump’s claim in a recent fundraising email that he’s being “forced off the campaign trail and into courtrooms” this week.

Trump will be the subject of two developments in court as oral arguments start Tuesday when his attorneys will argue presidential immunity in his election interference case and final arguments begin Thursday in his civil fraud trial in New York.

But McCaskill, appearing in her role as an analyst on MSNBC, pointed out Trump is “attending these events not because he needs to, not because he has to, not because it’s in his legal best interests, but because he wants the coverage this week leading up to Iowa to be all about his narrative that he is a victim of government weaponization against him, that ‘They’re trying to keep me out of office, they’re trying to keep me from fighting for you.’”

Trump is “looking at the Iowa caucuses as his moment to definitively become the nominee,” she said.

“We’re going to talk more about these events if he’s there, and he knows that,” McCaskill continued. “This is all political strategy on his point, it has nothing to do with his legal peril. It has everything with him wanting to become president. Because you know what? These arguments he’s making in front of these federal judges, if he’s president it all goes away, he waves a wand and there’s no more federal prosecution against him, no more convictions against him, nothing.”

Trump sees the courtroom appearances as “essential campaign stops,” she added.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin had agreed.

“They’re not obligations,” said Rubin. “In fact, in none of these circumstances does former President Trump have to attend at all to the extent that he and his proxies