MSNBC Dumps Trump’s Live Remarks As He Yet Again Claims Trial is ‘Election Interference’: ‘Arguably Not the Fact’

MSNBC dropped Donald Trump’s rant outside the criminal hush money payment hearing Monday after the former president once again bemoaned “election interference” and “voter intimidation.”

“The former president is repeating what he has said often, that this is a case of election interference, which is arguably not the fact,” Andrea Mitchell said before tossing to NPR’s Mara Liason.

“Spinning and delaying,” Liaison said. “So, there’s tactics and there’s strategy. The tactic is to delay as long as possible, hopefully past the election. The strategy is to destroy American’s faith in the justice system, so that whatever the results of these trials, Donald Trump can dismiss them or say that they’re phony, just like he tried to do with the election. That’s why you hear him saying ‘election interference, voter intimidation.’ He is casting this as if the justice system itself is on trial, not him.”

Attorney Joyce Vance added, “So, Trump is correct when he says that this is a case of election interference, just not in the way that he means it.” She continued:

Because this case, which Trump has tried to suggest is unimportant or about business practices, is actually about the desperate, last gasp of his campaign ahead of the 2016 election. The “Access Hollywood” tape has been released. Women are abandoning the trump candidacy in droves. They’re extremely concerned about the release of information that the Republican nominee had an affair with a porn star while his wife was home with their infant son.

That’s the reason that they went ahead and paid off Stormy Daniels, gave her hush money payments. And it seems like in order to conceal them, they characterized them as payments to Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohen. When you understand the full context of this case, it’s very clear that it’s about an effort to pull the wool over the eyes of voters, to ensure that they didn’t have access to important information about a candidate while they voted.

During the hearing, Judge Juan Merchan set a trial date for April 15.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.