Inside With Jen Psaki: Former Donald Trump Aid Sarah Matthews On Why She's Voting For Joe Biden

Source:MSNBC talking to one of President Donald J. Trump's communication aides Sarah Matthews.

"Former Trump Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews and The Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins join Jen Psaki to discuss Donald Trump's hold on the Republican party despite his legal troubles." 

From MSNBC 

Sarah Matthews on Bill Barr: "She pointed to Barr’s warning from May 2023 when he said: “You may want his policies, but Trump will not deliver Trump policies. He will deliver chaos and, if anything, lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be.”

“So, even if you want a conservative agenda, Trump is not the person who will deliver that,” Matthews summarized." 

From Yahoo News

McKay Coppins on Bill Barr: "I think there's this idea in both the Democratic Party and Republican Party, as bad as Donald Trump might be, as authoritarian as he might be, giving up power to the other side by not not voting for your own candidates, is even worst. There's this idea in the Republican Party right now during the Trump era, that giving up power to the other side, is even worst than voting for Donald Trump." 

As authoritarian and as bad as Donald Trump might be, he's not Joe Biden, he's not a Democrat. That seems to be Bill Barr's only reason to vote for Donald Trump again.. Imagine two serial killers and one of them says something like: "I'm not as bad as the other guy. He murdered women and children. I just murdered gay men."

This justification by Bill Barr for voting for Donald Trump right now, is that Joe Biden is worst than an authoritarian or wannabe dictator. Even though its President Biden who signed off on the foreign aid package that was finally passed in Congress, that aides Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, who are fighting to prevent authoritarians from taking over their countries. While former President Trump and his MAGA cult in the House, opposed that package all the way. I mean even if Joe Biden is reelected and with a Democratic Congress, if they do a bad job, or at least are unpopular in 2025-26, they'll lose Congress, or at least the House or Senate in 2026. 

As my colleague Kire Schneider wrote about Bill Barr on Monday: 

"Peter Wehner makes at least two excellent points here about Donald Trump. The 1st one about former Attorney General Bill Barr, who went on CNN last Friday night to talk to Kaitlan Collins about why he can't vote for Joe Biden. I think she did an excellent job in getting him to say exactly why he won't vote for Joe Biden for any reasons. He didn't hold back on that. 

I'm sure there are Democrats like this as well. Just look at the so-called Squad and the so-called Congressional Progressive Caucus in the House, who probably for no reasons whatsoever could vote for a Republican. Even a Republican running against a Democrat whose literally dead. But there are a wing of true Conservative Republicans, who can't vote for Democrats, simply because they can't live with themselves helping to create a unified Democratic government (White House & Congress) because they believe that would be bad for the country. That is a type of Republican that I think Bill Barr is." 

From The New Democrat

The point here is that Bill Barr is more interested in the future of the Republican and how much power they'll have in Washington post-2024, then he's interested in the future of the country. I know this is easy for me to say as someone whose still a registered Democrat. Even though I'm not a left-wing Democrat. But I'm center-right probably on most issues as a JFK Democrat, who would fit in well with the Republican Party of the 1960s and perhaps even 1970s, than with the left-wing of the Democratic Party today. 

Bill Barr has no credible reasons for voting for Donald Trump. But he doesn't need one either. Hell, politicians get elected and reelected all the time simply because they're up to date on pop culture and routinely drop pop culture references off the cuff, speak primarily in political pop culture sound bites and catch phrases, and own the right smart phones, etc. Meaning voters, especially young voters, think they're cool. Even if they can't even name one of their public policy positions on anything. Even to get themselves out of jail. 

So why not get elected to office simply because of your party registration? Even as Bill Barr said so himself: "Donald Trump is someone who should never even be near The White House again."

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