MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace: Trump Accusing FBI Director Wray of Invading His Home Is ‘a Dangerous Lie’

Wallace: “I mean, Claire, again, though, with Trump, there’s this language that is dangerous just as a rhetorical device, to say if Christopher Wray, ‘he invaded my home. I’m suing the country over it. He invaded Mar-a-Lago.’ That’s not what happened. The FBI went to Trump privately a dozen times to try to regain control of national defense information, state secrets, including nuclear secrets. The country decided that that’s the guy that will have them again. But at the time that the FBI was trying to repossess them, he didn’t have a right to have those materials. So, to accuse Christopher Wray of, again, ‘invading my home,’ is a dangerous lie.”

McCaskill: “Well, you know, how many thousands has he told? And yet, the country elected him. You know, I saw the movie Apprentice and it kind of crystallized for me, Nicolle, what Donald Trump’s entire communication strategy is. And it’s pretty simple. There’s just three things. First, always attack. Second, lie whenever you need to. And third, never admit you’re wrong. And if you look at what he’s doing now, what he did in that interview, and that’s exactly what he did, he tried to turn every question that was asked of him into an attack on someone else. He lied when he needed to, and he refused to admit that he was wrong about anything. So, on we go. And, you know, both — both my colleagues are right and both — all three of us have spent many, many hours in a courtroom. And frankly, I kind of like Adam Kinzinger’s view of this. Bring it. Bring it. Yeah. I’m not saying that he can’t disrupt people’s lives with investigations. The power of a prosecutor to ruin someone’s life without ever bringing charges is real. That’s real. But having said that, whether it is a civil case or a criminal case, Donald Trump and the lawyers who surround him, no matter how lame they might be, they know that the Constitution says people get a jury trial, especially in a criminal case. In a criminal trial, the jury has to agree unanimously, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a crime was committed. You don’t do that without evidence. You don’t. And prosecutors, frankly, don’t bring cases with no evidence. So, a lot of this is, as Adam — it’s just howling. It’s howling. And part of me kind of thinks he goes down this road because his administration will grind into a nonproductive place in terms of any of the things he’s promised. It will be just like the first two years last time. He said he was going to build a wall and didn’t build a wall, he said Mexico was going to pay for it. Mexico didn’t pay for it. Let’s just wait and see. I have a feeling it will be a repeat.”