'He's venting': Analysts say Trump is 'bitter' about others taking attention spotlight
Donald Trump appears "bitter" that others have been able to get more media attention than him for the past several weeks, despite his being shot at and being heralded at the Republican convention, political experts remarked Monday.
Speaking to MSNBC, former Republican Tim Miller and ex-Congresswoman Val Demings (D-FL) said the ex-president was steaming that others have pushed him from the spotlight.
Host Jose Diaz-Balart played a clip of Trump's Atlanta rally from the weekend in which he complained about prisoners being released from Russia last week. According to Trump, far more prisoners had been released under his watch.
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“We have 59 hostages; I never paid anything. ... Boy, we make some horrible, horrible deals. It’s nice to say we got ’em back, but does that set a bad precedent?” Trump told his audience.
A CNN fact-check showed Trump wasn't accurate when he said he didn't give anything in return for the prisoners under his watch.
"It's a ludicrous lie for starters," Miller explained. "He did several hostage trades just as President [Joe] Biden did. I don't know, I think it's for himself. He's bitter about Kamala Harris getting a lot of attention. He's bitter that Joe Biden did this deal that he had promised that he would do when he got back in, and he's just venting."
He noted that at the same rally, Trump began trashing Gov. Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican with whom Trump clashed in 2020 after he refused to find 11,780 votes to ensure Trump's victory in the state.
Miller called Kemp a "popular Republican governor," while Trump is "a narcissist who's obsessed with his own grievances. He did damage attacking Kemp and praising [Vladimir] Putin. That doesn't appeal to the key voters he's going to need in this election."
Demings agreed, saying that Trump grows "more and more bizarre" with each rally.
"Wouldn't it have been nice, you know — there's a saying that a house divided against itself cannot stand, and at the end of the day, the person elected on November 5th will be the president of the United States. And wouldn't it have been nice if former President Trump called President Biden and Vice President Harris to congratulate them?"
Demings, a former police captain, recalled serving as a hostage negotiator while working for the police department and how "stressful" it was.
"It took a lot to do what those officers did, but imagine at this level," she said of the freed prisoners. "And so, you know, wouldn't it have been nice if the former president had celebrated with the current administration, those families and just all of America, that these wonderful people are home?"
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