good evening. i m mehdi hasan. picture the scene. a cult leader gathers hi followers in waco, texas, as law enforcement closes in. described as a pathologica liar and comment, the cold later rails against th government, rages against th godless left, and depict himself as the chosen one. his disciples eat it up. they worship him they even vowed to give thei lives for him. now, am i describing david - the infamous leader who wa killed along with 75 of hi cold members in the fbi sieg of his waco compound in 1993 or, i might describing forme president donald trump because trump we ll be hosting his first mccartney of 2023 in waco, next weekend, on the 30t anniversary of the waco siege. and, while of course, trump is not accused of the kind of her horrific crimes and delusion that correct was, he is him choosing waco to host maga rally right now is just a little too on the nose for me. but, will he even be there i waco next saturday he doesn t seem to think so. the former pre
you got rid of a dictator, democracy would naturally brea out. i would say a kind o gullibility about america leaders because it had been so long since that experience o vietnam. people like me, who were younger, who had not lived through vietnam, had come to kind of discount to be ver important lessons of that war. you have been around in d.c., new york media, politica circles for a while now. you are editor of a prominen political magazine does it surprise you how man of the iraq war hawks in our politics, in our media, have failed up without showing an regret or remorse? george bush is now - michelle obama s close friend. john bolton is thinking abou throwing his hat into the go presidential race. david frum is a liberal hashta resistance anti trump pin-up even though he just wrote piece for the atlantic thi week still defending the war i don t think there has bee
for joe and josephine sixpack, or it would be, if it wa remotely tethered to reality name one instance, just on instance, by the forme president ever, ever showe even a glimmer of reciprocated loyalty to his own die har followers. you can t. and the tragedy here is hi disciples, like those of david cuirass, have only jus realized - once it s too late take a look at these message from a - proud boys telegram channels o january the 20th, 2021 on inauguration day. we truly believed in tha effort some guys are in jail becaus they followed him. i m disgusted that i had suc loyalty to trump, and i ve los everything for him if that guy. i imagine the waco branc division survivors would describe david karadsheh may b in similar terms or maybe excellent all adjusts or people who escaped th clutches of the qanon cult ultimately, though, it doesn t matter what members of a copin
on this show but i have to ask tonight, how would an indictment effect i the 2024 race? trump is not just a former president, he is the front runner that raise. who better to ask than a lon time observer of presidents an chief white house corresponden from the new york times pete baker thanks for coming back o the show, peter. politically, do you buy th argument from some of hi supporters as well as people like elon musk that an indictment would help trump in electoral terms, in terms of garnering sympathy from the go base that has slowly, ever s slowly been moving away from trump? i think you are exactly right to point out that we don t know we have never seen anythin like this before, right? there is no history to base ou judgment on. we ought to be careful about making predictions in, as yo put, it uncharted territory. we do not know they are very confident, obviously, that this will help them you want to be confident you ve got to be careful o politics about things you ar confide
took to his ridiculously nam social media website, trut social, yesterday morning, t announce to the world he wil be arrested this coming week we have been swamped, flooded, inundated with hot takes, take this could lead to civil war takes that trump has now secured the 2024 gop nomination, takes from the likes of th chief twits, elon musk himself that if trump is it arrested he will be reelected in landslide victory is there any evidence, even anecdotal evidence, that this could be remotely true? or that elon musk has been proved right about anything? there is no history to loo back to here, to take preceden from, a former president indicted before, if it happens we would be in uncharted waters look, we hate horse race stuff