murders and bad guys. they can t use it as a formal defense, but it s clear it s obvious that he s inspired the conduct. and all thefalse flag theories t blame the left, they just serve as distractions that make it harder for law enforcement and embolden copy cats. yeah, that s the thing that i keep coming back to is that the sort of wink, wink, nudge, nudge, the rhetoric. and this as well, and this goes down to nielsen, it s not just the president, this is why the kirstjen nielsen thing is remarkable. bill shine, unhirable, alleged come policity, he s now working at the white house where he sort of co-produces things with his former employer fox and not just the president. everyone around the president essentially functions as cogs in the wheels of creating this alternate distraction economy. they create the alternate distraction economy and they re
twitter did not suspend the account. she filed a report with them. he told george soros he will soon vanish. so like this guy had every red flag available on the internet, and it wasn t caught onto because it s honestly it s part of how people speak from that side, from that really dark corner of the right. ben shrekinger, you ve gone to trump rallies, and one thing you hear, i ve experienced this as well during the campaign, the difference between people interacting with you as a person, hey, i m an accountant, how are you, a reporter, oh, and then their behavior as part of the crowd. that s right. if you meet someone in line, if you re out on the floor, interviewing people, you tell them you re a reporter, they tend to be friendly. they tend to think it s cool that they re talking to a reporter, even if they may say that they distrust the mainstream media. they still tend to be friendly and interact with you like
nameless person protesting at a restaurant, versus the president of the united states not even telling people of this country you should you shouldn t have done this, that nobody should do this. the election is one thing. but make no mistake about it, sanity will not return if the democrats take the house or the senate. the election the election isn t one thing. the election is the thing. you know, you can write your columns, and i used to be a reporter, and i love to write. you can go on television. the people have the power. you ve got to take away the power from the mitch mcconnells. yes. from the paul ryans, from the dean hellers. and i could go on. and the only way to do that is the vote. because all this outrage doesn t mean anything if the same people are in power. i will say this. my own take on this is that it s necessary, but not sufficient. some sort of political check on power of the president in the republican party is necessary to
unbelievably abhorrent way and it is very important in this time now that we keep on remembering the way that normal presidents would have reacted to this. you know, or ronald reagan, or barack obama, or a john f. kennedy, you know, if there was a reaction to something like this, it would have been try to unify the nation and make people feel safe, enforce the rule of law, feel for the person even if it was a political adversary. that s what america is. he doesn t understand that. final question to you, what do you think historians, the michael beschloss s of the future, when they re writing about a president in this period, what their judgment will be about his moment at this his role in this moment in american politics? i think they will say this exposed the kind of person he really is. he can t even pretend in public to be otherwise. can t pretend to be a unifier. as bad as it is in public it s probably a good thing for him
ben shrekinger, you ve gone to trump rallies, and one thing you hear, i ve experienced this as well during the campaign, the difference between people interacting with you as a person, hey, i m an accountant, how are you, a reporter, oh, and then their behavior as part of the crowd. that s right. if you meet someone in line, if you re out on the floor, interviewing people, you tell them you re a reporter, they tend to be friendly. they tend to think it s cool that they re talking to a reporter, even if they may say that they distrust the mainstream media. they still tend to be friendly and interact with you like you re a person. once you re inside that pen, once the president gets going about his gripes with the media, it s like a switch has been flipped. things get ugly. there s booing, there s worse than booing. it s like night and day. what s the worse than booing? jim acosta, i think, mentioned recently last week seeing someone do a motion like