Former Biden chief of staff says no 'big' strategy needed for Trump: He's 'busy taking himself down every day'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

04/28/24 3:19 PM ET


Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Sunday dismissed the need for President Biden to have a “big political strategy” against former President Trump, arguing the former president does enough harm to himself.

“I don’t think it’s a big political strategy to take down Donald Trump. I think Trump is busy taking himself down every day,” Klain said Sunday during an interview with MSNBC host and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

“And it’s important, though, for the president to make the contrast between the kind of presidency he’s brought and what he’ll do for four more years, and [what] Donald Trump has done, what Trump himself is saying he’s going to if he gets the chance to come back to the White House,” he added.

Klain’s remarks were in response to Psaki, who pointed to Biden’s speech at this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where he poked fun at the former president. When asked what he thinks of Biden’s strategy to “needle” Trump, Klain said, “I think it’s the party of it.”

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Klain is the best

and that's as good a cover story as I've heard in awhile. They will hog tie Trump before this is over. Give him no room to move.

[Blue Owl]

2. In reality that's exactly what Dump is doing

But thanks to the M$M, they’re helping him to fail upwards by enabling and normalizing his outlandish behavior….

[underpants]

3. I've been saying this for months.

Although the media coverage isn’t helping us but he’s proving there IS bad publicity.

[LiberalFighter]

4. I agree tr.mp is taking himself down.

Anytime he opens his mouth.
Anytime he has to be in court.

[onecaliberal]

5. He's not wrong. The dementia is taking over.

[Dulcinea]

6. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

--Attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte

[IronLionZion]

7. Biden has tons of wins. We need to let people know about it

Not everyone pays attention to it like we do on DU.

[EndlessWire]

8. First off,

" asked what he thinks of Biden’s strategy to “needle” Trump, Klain said, “I think it’s the party of it.” What does that mean?

And I totally disagree. Trump has a cadre of Nazi power people to cover for him, and we need to effing fight every step of the way to November. His base is both stupid and forgetful. We need to remind people every day, as often as possible what a crud bum Trump is. We need to make it unprofitable for anyone to endorse this drooling, farting, indicted criminal who wants to be our first dictator. We need to repeat every day what a bad idea it is to elect Trump again. We need to explain what it will mean to our country.

We complained before that the Dems do not campaign hard enough. If anything, Biden needs to continuously point out Trump's shortcomings. I don't mean calling juvenile names, although I think it's fair to say, "Sleepy Don," but now is the time to turn up the heat on Trump. Trump is stuck in a criminal trial and not on the campaign trail. That's all on him. Joe is getting around, talking to the people. Now is the time. It's true that Trump is busy putting his own stumbling blocks out there, but he needs more. Now is not the time to be complacent.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. I think they need to remind people a lot more that Trump is a rapist

When they didn't make a big deal of the jury verdicts abut E. Jean Carroll at the time, I gave them the benefit of the doubt that they were waiting to see if Haley would give him a run, or they thought tactically he was the easier to run against in the general, so thought that by keeping quiet about it, they'd get him, not her.

But now he's the Republican candidate, people should associate Trump with rape. His rabid followers should be struggling with how they justify wanting a rapist to control them, and independents should be thinking "well, I can't vote for a rapist - and it's probably important enough that I do vote for Biden, because there appear to be a lot of bad people who will vote for the rapist".