It’s a well-known fact that the very most loyal employees in the Trump Empire were (and are, even if he’s no longer emperor) his spokespeople.

That stands to reason, because in order to do a job like that, you have to convince yourself of a great many things that are either ridiculously stupid or easily proven to be false. You really have to buy in to be the person who repeats the nonsense he says.

So for Sarah Matthews, Trump’s onetime spokeswoman, to come out on another spokeswoman’s show — this time a Biden emissary, Jen Psaki — and lay Trump bare like she did this week is nothing short of unbelievable.

She cut right to the chase. After Psaki brought up Trump’s heralding of a photo of Kamala Harris arriving at a Detroit airport as fake, Matthews chimed in.

“I think that he feels this election slipping away from him, and that’s where you’re beginning to see him spiral and cling to these conspiracy theories, as you noted with the AI-generated crowds, which obviously can be easily disproven.

I know it’s insanity. There will be people out there that will believe it, though, because he’s pushing it. And that’s what happens when he gets desperate, is he pushes these conspiracy theories.”

There’s absolutely no way that Trump actually believes that Harris has no supporters. That’s what makes the things he says that much more terrifying. He is speaking in defiance of reality.

But Matthews didn’t stop with just examples of him saying demonstrably crazy things. She pointed at his open embrace of saying highly offensive things as well, like when he said — to the National Association of Black Journalists — that he’d been previously unaware of Harris’ racial heritage until she recently “happened to turn black.”

Like she finally claimed her blackness for political reasons. That’s just gross, hearing him say garbage like that.

But that was kind of Matthews’ point in underlining Trump’s strange behavior. She believes he’s going off the deep end specifically because he is feeling the pinch, and for the first time believing that he’s going to lose.

“These are not winning campaign messages,” She said. “But that is what he does when he feels like he’s under attack, is he uses these kinds of lines of defense that don’t make much sense for campaigning.”

You know, it would be a lot better for the careers of all these ex-Trump employees who have flipped on him if they’d just told us what they knew at the time.

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