Rachel Maddow says that the “interesting question” on Trump is “what the country lets him get away” | Video
Rachel Maddow lowered Donald Trump on Msnbc colleague, Lawrence O’Donnell, declaring that the latest “dictator” of Trump “made him” very boring “. Not that she argued that the current situation is not serious, only that Trump acts as, as she joked, a blond copy of the former Italian Prime Minister extremely corrupt Silvio Berlusconi.
But Maddow also said that the “really interesting question” about all of this is “what the country allows him to get away with it.
The comment came at the start of “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”, while the duo explained how Trump’s current actions – calling for the national guard on the objections of the governor of California Gavin Newsom to repress legal demonstrations – are exactly the opposite of what he said that he could do legally in 2020 during the demonstrations of George Floyd. At that time, Trump said it would be illegal for him to do so without request from a state governor.
“I mean the difference,” said Maddow is that “he decided that he throws everything.
“He decided to throw all the rules,” said Maddow. “What it did, as far as I’m concerned, is to make it very boring, because it’s as if it was on the table. We know exactly what he does. We know exactly what his intentions are. Testing this right now, all over the country, especially this week. »»
Later in the discussion, Maddow argued that the problem is not that Trump has changed his mind on what he can and cannot do legally, it is that “we can probably intudate that what is said to him is:` Yes, it is illegal, so, will do it. ”. I think that the more it breaks laws, the more obviously unconstitutional things than it offers and try both, I think that the more they think that power returns to him, because it is less limited by things that do not really stop it. “”
“And therefore in the end, I mean, the courts repel him. Congress, to a certain extent, repels it a little, although I think a little more than they grant them, but above all, people repel it. Months in this term.
Maddow later noted that Rhetoric and Trump’s response to demonstrations were largely out of proportion to their scope, but “even if these demonstrations were 100 times the size of the National Guard. Because he panics and thinks he looks weak, and therefore he has to do something that seems strong. »»
“And therefore we will have tanks destroying the streets of Washington this Saturday, and we will have national guards and American marine in standing service around Los Angeles, wondering what it has to do with their military career. And that is all because he has no frightening and joyful and lasting idea against him. And he is absolutely panicking.” Maddow added.
Look at the whole conversation below:
