'Ranting like a lunatic': Ex-GOP insider slams Trump's latest Truth Social meltdown

Former President Donald Trump is being hidden away from media because he's compulsively throwing barely coherent tantrums at every opportunity, argued a former Republican Party strategist turned Lincoln Project adviser on Tuesday evening.

This is the real heart of the GOP's frustrations when they attack Vice President Kamala Harris for going off the beaten path to speak to unconventional audiences, Tara Setmayer said on MSNBC.

"Here's the thing," said anchor Katie Phang. "You keep on hearing criticism coming from the Republicans and the GOP about the fact that Kamala Harris is going to untraditional media platforms to be able to speak to Americans. I think it's been a brilliant strategy to be able to reach voters that maybe aren't the typical person that would be somebody listening to her in the immediate sense."

"But the hypocrisy is so rank in my opinion," she continued. "Just because it may be an untraditional place like a podcast, like 'Call Her Daddy' or even the 'Howard Stern Show,' in my opinion, and I'm asking you, if it's a conversation where she doesn't get the questions in advance and there's no issue that's off the table, why does it make it less of a quality conversation?"

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"It doesn't. It is a smart strategy," said Setmayer, a frequent critic of the former president.

The upshot, she continued, is that "she's legit meeting people where they are. The 'Call Her Daddy' podcast gets 5 million downloads a week. Donald Trump is ranting like a lunatic on a fake social media site that he created as a way to, like, hide money. Are you kidding? They're talking about that? They're going after Kamala Harris, who has gone on '60 Minutes,' been interviewed by CNN, who hasn't refused to debate, who does real interviews, and is also employing a new modern-day media strategy?"

"Meanwhile, Donald Trump is doing things that are not appealing to mainstream voters, and he's on alt-right social media outlets," she added. "Like, the false equivalency here is laughable, and they're just mad because they can't put Donald Trump into these other venues because he can't handle it. Period. And she can."

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