Trump's News Conference Backfires And Helps Kamala Harris

Trump showed exactly why putting him on national television often is great for people like Kamala Harris who are fighting to save democracy.

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Donald Trump’s Desperation News Conference

Donald Trump always makes the same move when he thinks he is losing. During his presidency, when Trump thought he was losing or didn’t like his media coverage, he would take over the briefings and hold news conferences. When Trump was doing badly in the New York criminal fraud case, he put himself in front of the cameras and was his own PR person, so it was a sure sign that Trump knew that the election had turned against him when posted that he would be holding a general news conference” at his Mar-a-Lago club on Thursday afternoon.

People who have worked for Trump said that they have seen this move a million times. Trump was desperate, frustrated, and scared, trying to control media coverage.

Trump turned to his favorite person to do the job. Himself.

I won’t discuss how this press conference was a total disast…