Bruce Castor Explains His Laughable Trial Performance Was ‘By Design’ and ‘Everything’s Fine’

This is some useful insight into how hard core Trumpites manage to stay that way. Denial of reality is a key component to working for Donald Trump and that certainly makes a lot of sense. Bruce Castor spoke with Fox News after his disastrous and widely panned showing at the impeachment trial, but to hear him tell it, everything went according to plan.

Castor said that “the media is paying far more attention to what I had to say, and consequently spent less time on arguments advanced by Raskin and his team.”

“That was by design,” Castor said. “I don’t like reading bad stuff about me in the newspaper any more than anyone else does, or my legal colleagues around the country saying I’m stupid, but the reason I made the change was precisely so that in lowering the temperature in the room, the public coverage would be more about what I said than about what the House Managers said.”

I don’t know if he lowered the temperature in the room so much as he made what should have been a solemn proceeding into a cringe worthy farce, but he went on to say it was incorrectly reported that Trump was unhappy with him.

During an exclusive interview with Fox News, Castor addressed reports that Trump was “furious” and “beyond angry” over his defense team’s showing on Tuesday. Sources told Fox News that the former president had been displeased with Castor’s opening argument.

“My reaction is you need to check those sources because that has not been communicated to me by the president or anybody associated with the president,” Castor said. “Including Mark Meadows, who specifically came to the Capitol yesterday to tell me don’t read news coverage.”

Castor added that Meadows told him that “everything is going fine” and to “continue doing what you’re doing.” […]

Castor, though, said that Trump “is paying me to win the case.”

“If winning the case has a consequence that I have to take a few torpedos in order to focus attention on us and away from what the House managers are doing, then that is part of the danger in being a trial lawyer, when prevailing is of greater importance that personal grandiosement.”

Let’s see what Castor does with the rest of the trial. He’s got a lot of lost ground to make up for — unless, as he says, there is method in his madness and this is all part of some grand legal design of his.