a poll showing americans strongly approve this president. it appears the suspect lies in the strongly approve category. what does the president think of this guy? if you watch trump at his rallies, he seems to light up at the displays of the truly gung ho trumpites. at the chance of lock her up. what does mr. trump about the man arrested today enemies from his own lips. that s hardball for now. tonight on all in . you know, i d love to be in command of this case when i have the guy s motive plastered all over his van. the suspect in the attempted bombing of 12 democratic leaders and supporters. a massive trump fan. went to the president s rallies, and drives a van covered in right wing propaganda. i did not see my face on the
you know, one thing i was reminded of through all this, in the spring of 1972 george wallace was campaigning for the democratic nomination for president. and he was shot in maryland and the news was brought to richard nixon and he was told that there was a suspect, arthur bremmer who lived in milwaukee. about nixon s first reaction was, well, maybe we should get someone to plant literature for george mcgovern in bremmer s apartment so that people will think that george mcgovern was behind the shooting of wallace. wow. and the reason i m reminded of this is not because there s any sign that trump is, you know, thought of doing something like that. but the stunning lack of empathy. and the immediate effort to just turn this into politics. it s just not in him. it s not in his software to unify the country. and, especially, you know, a little over a week before the midterms he s so intoxicated
theories this morning after you have to suspect the fbi and the justice department already informed him they knew who the suspect was and they knew his political leanings. paul, in some ways it s a testament to the ways in which americans american civil service can kind of function independent of any demonstrable leadership on top that people were able to go about tracking this person down because there are many career members of the government who work very hard and take their job very seriously no matter what the president is tweeting. this was a very good day for the fbi, which it desperately needed after the debacle of the brett kavanaugh investigation, the bureau proved today that it knows how to investigate a crime. and find the perpetrator. and so, you know, the point is that this is not a hoax. and i think director wray s comments today, to that effect, were a direct rebuke to the president. yes. this is about a national emergency. this is about domestic terrorism.
isis had taken responsibility for them. you d see the president talking about this all the time. you d see everyone in the administration out talking and tweeting about it. you d see a full scale effort. instead you saw none of that. you saw the administration actually trying to change the subject away from a mass assassination attempt, a mass terrorist attack. again, the president, you know, it s even worse than that. we talk about them changing the suspect. i think the president s tweet this morning was actually trying to fan the flames of a conspiracy theory. not just changing the subject. the president is coming out and reading the script when he has to, saying the right words, but doing what he s done before. he ll come out and read the words about russia interfered in our election, come out and read the words that neo-nazi violence is un acceptable. finds a way to send the signal to supporters they don t have to believe that, cling onto the conspiracy theories. paul. what tha
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