.MaddowBlog: White House struggles to explain, defend Pres. Trump's new extortion scheme
"So, you know, I won't get into exactly what the funding considerations are. With regard to the illegality and legality of it, that's a question for the campaign as to their voting and ballot practices.
"So, you know, I won't get into exactly what the funding considerations are.... With regard to the illegality and legality of it, that's a question for the campaign as to their voting and ballot practices." Ah. Trump explicitly threatened to curtail federal funding for a state struggling with two simultaneous crises, but the White House"won't get into" the practical implications of the presidential warning. Why not? Just because. As for referring questions to Trump's re-election campaign, that makes far less sense than the White House seems to realize. In fact, the president's re-election operation has literally nothing to do with yesterday's threat: Trump said he's prepared to use his presidential authority to strip a state of federal support unless that state altered its ballot-access plans. Unless Trump plans to defer governing decisions to his campaign operatives, the president's campaign HQ has nothing to offer on this story. As yesterday's briefing progressed, McEnany was repeatedly asked to explain what was"illegal" about Michigan's plan. The press secretary wouldn't say. And that's not surprising. By some measures, it's not even her fault, at least not entirely. Throughout his term, Trump has said ridiculous things, leaving the president's team to try to clean up his mess. It's clearly a struggle, of course, to come up with a coherent defense, because there are no coherent defenses.,"There's evidence. You can go look this up on ProPublica."
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