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The panel on “Real Time with Bill Maher” served up the latest in Trump Derangement Syndrome while vehemently opposing the term: “It’s not deranged to fear this!”
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On the latest episode of Bill Maher’s HBO talk show, the comedian took a hard left turn with a panel of guests out of central casting for “White Dudes for Harris” that included Mark Cuban, David Hogg and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough.
The latter attempted to advance the Democratic Party talking points that former President Donald Trump was somehow a threat to democracy by maintaining the narrative that the GOP leader’s intentions to confront the “enemy within” was not a matter of law and order against those that would harm the American republic, but rather a fascist plan to deploy the military against his political rivals.
“What drives me crazy is this past week, like, I don’t want people to listen to me. I don’t want them to listen to you. I don’t want them to listen to anyb- — I want them to listen to what Donald Trump says. And this past week…this past week, Donald Trump said that he was going to use the military and the National Guard to arrest his political opponents. He was asked if he would back off of that, and he said no,” insisted Scarborough.
“In fact, he doubled down. He talked about [California Rep.] Nancy Pelosi being evil, her husband being evil, [California Rep. Adam] Schiff being evil, talking about arresting them. He said he was gonna execute the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because he was disloyal to him. He told another chief of staff who was a general, I wish my generals were like Hitler’s generals,” continued the MSNBC host.
As he weaved facts together with fiction, Scarborough pushed back on the inevitable backlash he would receive and argued, “You tell people this and they go, he didn’t say that. You show them the clip and then they go, he doesn’t mean that.”
“That’s it,” agreed Maher. “And that’s when they say you have Trump Derangement Syndrome. And I would just like to say to my Republican friends, it’s not deranged to fear this! It’s not deranged to find this alarming!”
Of course, the reality was the notion of “orange man bad” that had consumed the left, leaving them hellbent on characterizing the president as a dictator rivaling the worst figures in history, so often relied on conflating remarks and skewing statements toward that end.
During his town hall with Fox News host Harris Faulkner, Trump did in fact bring up Pelosi and Schiff when he responded to criticism about calling up the National Guard while also making clear, “I’m not threatening anybody. They’re the ones doing the threatening.”
The original remarks while being interviewed by Fox News host Maria Bartiromo had included the president saying, “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the — and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen,” as he expressed his concerns about the enemy within.
As for Scarborough’s suggestion that Trump wanted to see former Joint Chiefs of Staff retired U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley executed, what the president had actually said on Truth Social, in response to reporting that the military leader had called China with promises to warn his counterpart if an attack were planned against the Chinese Communist Party before the peaceful transfer of power, was that Milley’s action was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”
“Yeah. We’re not saying this,” Scarborough argued despite the facts. “We’re not guessing what he’s going to do. He’s saying, no, this is what I’m going to do.”
“And he’s got the Supreme Court decision,” interjected Cuban, bringing up the hyperbolic reporting on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent to presidential immunity that suggested the commander-in-chief could order U.S. Navy SEALs to assassinate a political rival.
“I’m going to get Liz Cheney in a military tribunal,” continued the MSNBC host. “His people have said they’re going to arrest my producers.”
“He said he was gonna shut down CBS because he didn’t like how they edited a package in ’60 Minutes.’” contended Scarborough, glossing over how those edits that had Trump calling for CBS to face penalties, including the potential loss of their broadcasting license, could impact the general election as he concluded, “He’s out of control. His words.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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