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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Hungary for Power: Trump the Aspiring Autocrat

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki breaks down how Donald Trump's recent behavior is rooted in his idolization of authoritarian leaders, including Hungary’s Viktor Orban, who he recently hosted at Mar-a-lago. Rep. Adam Schiff joins Jen to discuss what Trump's security vulnerabilities and his desperation for power might mean for a potential second term, among other topics. Next, Jen outlines the right-wing's hypocritical critiques of Biden ahead of special counsel Robert Hur's testimony before Congress. Rep. Dan Goldman joins to preview Hur's testimony and discuss the importance of a former Trump employee's testimony in his classified documents case. Later, Jen discusses Sen. Katie Britt's misleading story about a victim of sex trafficking with independent journalist Jonathan Katz who helped unravel it on TikTok. Finally, Jen analyzes the messaging failures of the royal family as an altered photo of Kate Middleton intensifies an ongoing PR crisis.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, there is a lot going on tonight.

0:12.5

We've got another immunity claim from Donald Trump.

0:14.8

A key witness in the Mar-a-Lago documents case is now speaking out on camera, and all

0:19.6

the while, the general election is full

0:21.6

steam ahead. You know, just another normal Monday in 2024. Lucky for us, Congressman Adam Schiff

0:28.0

is standing by right here in studio, and Congressman Dan Goldman is going to join me a little bit later

0:32.9

on. But I do want to start tonight with a bit of a riddle for all of you. What is a true social post about Jimmy Kimmel, a meeting with Hungarian autocrat, Victor Orban,

0:43.1

an elastish effort to delay the start of his first criminal trial, tell us about Donald Trump?

0:49.5

All of that might just seem like examples of unhinged and frankly strange behavior.

0:56.1

It is. They are also the actions of someone attempting to project strength in order to cover up weakness. Really,

1:02.3

they're all the actions of a wannabe dictator. Let's start with the news from earlier today.

1:06.9

Donald Trump is now trying to delay the start of his criminal trial in New York until after the

1:11.6

Supreme Court rules on the scope of presidential immunity. Remember that this trial, the one he's trying to

1:16.4

delay, about the hush money payments that were made during the 2016 presidential campaign to

1:21.8

adult film star Stormy Daniels to interfere in the election, is supposed to start just two weeks

1:26.6

from today. It's around the corner.

1:28.7

I mean, Trump is basically saying that just because he was once president, he is then immune

1:33.6

from anything he's ever done in his life. And of course, Trump has tried this tactic in

1:38.9

essentially every case against him. It's one of his favorites, including in the defamation suit,

1:43.4

he recently lost to E. Jean Carroll. So with a loss under his belt, including in the defamation suit, he recently lost to

1:44.6

E. Jean Carroll. So with a loss under his belt, he's again resorting to the same tactic that got

1:50.9

him in trouble in the first place. He's attacking E.J. and trying to create a bit of an alternate

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