Former Trump Comms Director Says Trump Is Mobilizing Proxies to Courthouse To ‘Get Around the Gag Order’
Former Trump White House Communications Director Michael Dubke suggested on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump was mobilizing his proxies to the courthouse amid his ongoing trial in an effort to “get around the gag order” imposed on him.
Asked by CNN host Abby Phillip why so many of Trump’s proxies and VP hopefuls were turning up outside the courthouse and what Trump was looking to gain from them doing so, Dubke suggested, “I think what he’s looking for is a way around the gag order.”
He explained:
I’m not gonna necessarily answer the question of what he wants them to do to prove themselves, because I don’t know, but what I do– what I am witnessing is that they have the ability to say the things that Donald Trump has been wanting to say but has basically been struck down 10 times for saying. So this is one way to get around the gag order. The other thing is timing is everything in politics, that’s an old saying that we all have.
“Why are they there this week?” asked Dubke. “If I had to guess, it’s because they are watching a prosecution that’s flailing and a case that may turn twelve Manhattanites into individuals that are acquitting Donald Trump in this trial, and they want to be part of that. I think there’s a lot of timing here. I don’t think it’s necessarily all this, the way that it’s being described, as auditions for the VP spot. I think there’s multiple things that are happening.”
Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines disagreed and suggested that Trump’s proxies were not even sure why they had to turn up.
“They don’t know what he wants. It’s sort of like a decathlon, where you don’t know what the actual events are,” he said. “They know that they should go and they should attack, you know, the prosecutor, they should attack the Georgia prosecutor, they should attack Jack Smith, they should raise some money, they should do this.”
Reines concluded, “They have to check all the boxes just to be even, on par with everyone else. There’s no downside.”
Several of Trump’s proxies and allies made appearances at the courthouse amid Trump’s trial this week, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL)
Asked by a reporter whether he was “directing” his surrogates to visit and attack the trial, Trump said, “I do have a lot of surrogates, and they are speaking very beautifully. And they come all– from all over Washington and they’re highly respected, and they think this is the greatest scam they’ve ever seen.”
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