MSNBC ’s Mehdi Hasan said Donald Trump inadvertently revealed the truth about his intentions during a campaign stop in Iowa this weekend.
“Our very stable genius who brags about being able to read a prompter better than ‘Sleepy’ Joe Biden even ended up accidentally telling the truth about the threat he poses to American democracy when he misread his prompter,” Hasan said, then played a clip of the former president.
“We’ve been waging an all-out war on American democracy,” Trump said.
“Yes! Yes, he has!” Hasan agreed. “And yet that fact that undeniable, unavoidable fact, that Trump has been waging a war on American democracy hasn’t been given the significance, and attention, and concern that it deserves,” he said.
MSNBC announced last week that it was canceling Hasan’s show , although he’ll remain with the network as an analyst and fill-in host.
But for now, with his show still on the air, Hasan devoted a lengthy segment to giving that “undeniable, avoidable fact” attention, and called out those who are treating next year’s election like a normal political event.
“It’s dangerous, denialist madness,” he warned. “And I’m sorry, but it ends in only one place: The end of American democracy. Don’t take my word for it. For once, take Donald Trump’s.”
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