MSNBC host Rachel Maddow believes that President Donald Trump is putting “heads on pikes” as retribution for “opposing him.”
Years after Trump was hauled into courtroom after courtroom in state after state, being hit with charge after charge by leftist prosecutors under former President Joe Biden’s watch, suddenly some on the left are concerned about the optics of prosecuting political opponents.
Maddow joined Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday to discuss Trump’s “retribution tour” following the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, claiming that the president is looking to frighten those who don’t agree with him. Sharpton also asserted that the charges against Letitia James will turn her into a “martyr” for the left.
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“You know, Trump is on a retribution tour. Just last week, his Justice Department brought charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, I just mentioned, for alleged mortgage fraud. He indicted FBI Director James Comey. The list of other potential targets is long, including some of his own former advisers like John Bolton and elected Democrats like Congressman Adam Schiff, just to name a few. If he continues down this list with these charges, how does this end?” Sharpton asked his fellow host.
“I think that the most obvious answer is probably the real one, which is that they want to make it either illegal or terrifying to oppose him. And so they’re putting heads on pikes and putting those pikes up at the edge of the…gates to the city to say, ‘It’s not possible to criticize, let alone oppose, this president,’” she responded. “If you do, look what we’re going to do to you and your family and your career and your livelihood and your reputation. And I think that’s all it is. And I think that they don’t have anybody holding them back. And so they’re going to do it as long as they can and as much as they can.”
“I think they will do it as long as they can until they realize that it backfires, and they’re really creating martyrs. I think that they will end up making people like Tish James and others much more powerful and influential than they thought they were,” Sharpton suggested.
“It’s going to be a unifying thing, too, because I think that even people who are soft supporters of Trump, who may like some things that he’s doing and not others, it’s so obvious that this is not the way the American rule of law is supposed to function,” Maddow predicted. “This is not the way the U.S. justice system is supposed to work. Anybody who sees all these U.S. attorneys firing, getting fired, and resigning, and stepping out, having to bring in some insurance lawyer from the mid-level ranks of the White House, who’s never prosecuted a case before to learn on the job about how to bring an indictment. I mean, I think any adult who understands about how the American rule of law works knows that this is wrong. And I think that this will cost him soft support, even if his fanatical supporters would follow him into hell.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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