TO VISIT ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC AND WHAT HE
DEPICTS AS OUT OF CONTROL CRIME
IN NEW YORK CITY AND OTHER
CITIES.
JOE BID
DONALD TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN GETTING
AN ASSIST FROM BILL BARR, WHO
THINKS HE’S HELPING THESE DAYS.
>> HE THINKS HE’S MAKING THE
POINT THAT HIS ABILITY TO
MONITOR THE SYSTEM IS SO GOOD
THAT IF YOU VOTED A SECOND TIME,
YOU WOULD BE CAUGHT.
>> THAT WOULD BE ILLEGAL IF
SOMEBODY MAILED IN A BALLOT AND
THEN ACTUALLY SHOWED UP TO VOTE
IN PERSON, THAT WOULD BE
ILLEGAL.
>> I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE LAW IN
THE PARTICULAR STATES SAY.
>> YOU CAN’T VOTE TWICE.
>> I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE LAW IN
THE PARTICULAR STATE SAYS AND
WHEN THAT VOTE BECOMES FINAL.
>> HERE’S WHERE WE ARE, WOLF
BLILTS
BLITZER TELLING THE COUNTRY’S
ATTORNEY GENERAL WHAT’S ILLEGAL.
SO EVEN IF SOMEONE TRIES TO HEED
TRUMP’S ADVICE, IT MIGHT NOT BE
NEARLY AS ED FIIFYING AS THEY HO
AND IT MIGHT NOT PROVE WHAT
TRUMP IS TRYING TO PROVE.
EVEN THOUGH HE WAS TELLING
PEOPLE TO VERIFY THEIR ABSENTEE
VOTES WERE COUNTED, THAT DOESN’T
MAKE SENSE.
AT THIS POINT PEOPLE INVOLVED IN
THESE PROCESSES MIGHT WRONGLY
BELIEVE THEIR ABSENTEE VOTE IS
LOST FOREVER AND MIGHT THINK IT
ALLOWS THEM TO VOTE IN PERSON,
AND ULTIMATELY THE VOTE MIGHT
TRULY BE ON THEM.
THE PRESIDENT’S POWER GRAB OF
SINKING POLLS AND RISING DEATH
TOLL IN THE U.S. DUE TO THE
CORONAVIRUS IS WHERE WE START
TODAY.
THE WHITE HOUSE REPORTER WHO
WE’VE ALREADY QUOTED SINCE WE’VE
BEEN ON THE AIR AND ASHLEY
PARKER IS BACK.
ALSO, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST
BAZOS MICHAEL AND MY FRIEND
STEVE SCHMIDT SHEER.
STEVE SCHMIDT, I THOUGHT OF YOU
WHEN I WROTE THIS AT THE
BEGINNING, THAT WE’RE NOW AT THE
POINT WHERE WHAT HE SAYS IS
ALMOST THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE’S
DOING.
AND IT REPRESENTS A NEW DEGREE
OF, YOU KNOW, FILL IN YOUR
ADJECTIVE
ADJECTIVE.
AUDACITY, HUTZPAH, DELUSION,
WHATEVER IT IS.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE REMEDY
OF THIS MORE AUDACIOUS LAW
COMING FROM TRUMP ABOUT LAW AND
ORDER?
>> WELL, IT IS DISHONEST AT A
PROFOUND LEVEL, NICOLLE.
IT’S A LIE WE’RE SEEING DONALD
TRUMP PROJECT FROM A POINT OF
WEAKNESS, TRYING TO CONVINCE
PEOPLE OF THIS ALTERNATE REALITY
THAT THERE’S VERY LITTLE
RESEMBLANCE TO ACTUAL REALITY.
WHERE THE COUNTRY IS CRUISING
TOWARDS 200,000 DEAD FROM
CORONAVIRUS, A SHATTERED
ECONOMY, ESCALATING FORECLOSURES
AND
AND EVICTION CRISIS.
BUT IT’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT
TRUMP IS NO LONGER A HAPHAZARD
AND ACCIDENTAL SET OF PATHOLOGY
PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE COME
TOGETHER THAT DEFINE, BECAUSE
IT’S HARD TO EXPLAIN THIS MOMENT
IN AMERICAN LIFE AND AMERICAN
POLITICS.
YOU TAKE IDEALOGY NOW AND IT’S
TAKEN ROOT.
IT’S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND
WHAT IT IS SO WE CAN DO
SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
AND WHAT IT IS IS AN ILLIBERAL,
AUTOCRATIC IDEALOGY THAT ABOUT
30% OF THE COUNTRY, ROUGHLY, ARE
ENAMORED WITH.
THEY ARE FULL IN 100% COMMITTED
TO THE CULTIVE PERSONALITY THAT
IS AT THE CORE OF TRUMPISM,
CULTIVE PERSONALITY BUILT AROUND
DONALD TRUMP.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CONVENTION,
WHAT YOU SAW WAS BREATHTAKING
LYING, UTTER LAWLESSNESS AND THE
SEIZURE OF SYMBOLS IN THE
AMERICAN REPUBLIC TO BECOME
PARTISAN TOTEMS FOR DONALD
TRUMP’S TRIBE TO MAKE THEM
SYMBOLS OF AUTHORITY OVER THE
REST OF THE COUNTRY.
SO, IN ESSENCE, WHAT TRUMP IS
SAYING IS I AM THE TRUTH, I AM
THE LAW, I AM THE STATE.
AND WE’RE REQUIRED TO OPPOSE
THIS AS AMERICANS BECAUSE THAT
IDEALOGY IS FUNDAMENTALLY
UNAMERICAN.
IT’S NOT WHAT THE COUNTRY IS
ABOUT.
IT’S CONTRARY TO THE AMERICAN
IDEA AND IDEAL, CONTRARY TO THE
