During MSNBC’s special live coverage of former President Donald Trump’s speech where he gave his initial reaction to the Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charging him with 34 counts of falsifying business records, co-host Stephanie Ruhle had a diva-like tantrum over Trump daring to fundraise off the controversy. Ruhle should check her emails because this writer has received dozens of fundraising emails from Democrats since Trump’s indictment Tuesday.
Ruhle has no problem with being a hypocrite. Instead, she lashed out at Republicans for claiming this ordeal was good for Trump: “right-wing media has been saying scandal after scandal this is great for Trump. It is never great for Trump politically.”
“It's a win-in-one-place and one-place-only: fundraising,” Ruhle claimed. She then went into meltdown mode over how Trump has solicited donations:
Since this indictment was announced, according to his campaign, he's raised eight million dollars. In the last 24 hours, in the motorcade on the way to the airport, he's on Truth Social, ‘send me a check’. First thing this morning, this is my last email before I’m arrested. And then as he entered the DA’s office to get fingerprinted, his campaign sends out an email, you send us a check, and you will get a t-shirt with Donald Trump's mugshot, which doesn’t exist because he didn’t get one.
No understanding the difference between a grift and fundraising for a presidential campaign. Ruhle cried that for Trump “this is always about the grift and fundraising.”
“His lawyer, Joe Tacopina, who should be focused on the case gets right in front of the cameras and says he’s raising more money than ever. So it's eye on the ball,” she huffed.
“There's one thing that has always been his focus, making money for himself, and that's what he's doing here,” Ruhle added.
MSNBC has spent the entire day Tuesday hyping these charges against Trump for all they’re worth in order to attract big audiences so the network can make money on advertising. Is that not similar to what Trump is doing? Only difference is the money Trump is raising isn’t going in his pocket. The funds go to power his campaign for the presidency.
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MSNBC’s The Indictment of Donald Trump
4/4/2023
9:46:48 p.m. EasternSTEPHANIE RUHLE: For me, it's always about the same thing follow the money, and right-wing media has been saying scandal after scandal this is great for Trump. It is never great for Trump politically. Remember the first impeachment? That didn’t win him back into the White House. Remember the Mar-a-Lago search? That didn’t win the midterms. And here we are again. This isn’t a win for Donald Trump.
It's a win-in-one-place and one-place-only: fundraising. And it's what he does consistently. Since this indictment was announced, according to his campaign, he's raised eight million dollars. In the last 24 hours, in the motorcade on the way to the airport, he's on Truth Social, ‘send me a check’. First thing this morning, this is my last email before I’m arrested. And then as he entered the DA’s office to get fingerprinted, his campaign sends out an email, you send us a check, and you will get a t-shirt with Donald Trump's mugshot, which doesn’t exist because he didn’t get one.
And so, over and over and over this is always about the grift and fundraising. His lawyer, Joe Tacopina, who should be focused on the case gets right in front of the cameras and says he’s raising more money than ever. So it's eye on the ball. There's one thing that has always been his focus, making money for himself, and that's what he's doing here.
