Jen Psaki says this Trump ‘talent’ could backfire

With no footage broadcast from inside the courthouse, Trump’s stop at the restaurant became the main image of the day and a “clear move to control the narrative,” Psaki said. Trump, the former host of “The Apprentice,” is “putting his old reality TV production skills to use,” she noted.

But it could fail, Psaki suggested, because a “public relations strategy is not a legal strategy” and “the quantity of public engagement does not equal the quality,” highlighting how Joe BidenTrump’s lower profile, compared to Trump’s bombast, during the 2020 election did not hurt Biden’s chances.

Trump is “very good at sucking up all the oxygen, but outside of Hollywood, that talent could end in a curse,” Psaki predicted.