The entire panel on MSNBC's "The Weekend" reacted with dismay and disgust after watching a clip of Donald Trump seemingly approving of violence if Judge Juan Merchan sends him to jail as the result of his conviction on 34 felony counts.
In a taped interview with the hosts of Fox & Friends run early Sunday morning, the former president was asked what the impact of his jailing would have throughout the country and he blithely replied, ""I don't know that the public would stand it, you know, I don't. I think I think it would be tough for the public to take, you know at a certain point, there's a breaking point."
That led noted historian Michael Beschloss to bluntly say the embattled former president is encouraging violence among his rabid followers.
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"He goes on to say at a certain point there is a breaking point," co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend prompted. "We have never seen something like this before in the United States from a former U.S. president. Even Richard Nixon did not go this far.."
"Not a bit," Beschloss replied. "Did you see Eisenhower todo something like this? 'Let's have domestic terrorism to resolve who's going to be the next president'? This is a thread that goes through Donald Trump back to the early rallies of late 2015. Remember when he used to say— and this was novel at the time and it has become old hat with him — 'Look at those reporters in the hall.,mainstream press are bad people.' The audience would boo and some were worried that there would be violence by some in the hall against reporters and other journalists who were trying to report on what was going on."
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