Democrats and their media mouthpieces have spent days gloating about the fourth indictment of former President Donald J. Trump but Mehdi Hasan is stressing that they could be cheated out of their day of vengeance if the persecuted GOP frontrunner flees the U.S. before the coming show trials.
The host of “The Medhi Hasan Show” shared his fears with his fellow MSNBC cohorts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on Thursday’s edition of “Morning Joe” where the topic was, as it almost always is, the man who has tormented the emotionally fragile left since the day that he sprung the political upset of the century by toppling the “unbeatable” Hillary Clinton in 2016.
(Video: MSNBC)
In a segment featuring the all-caps banner of “WALLS CLOSE IN ON DONALD TRUMP,” the husband and wife team were relishing the day of reckoning for Trump, who has savagely insulted both of them when Hasan became a bit of a buzzkill with his suggestion that the combative and defiant Republican would go entirely against his character and run from a fight.
“I genuinely think we need to start having a discussion about whether this guy is a flight risk,” Hasan said, “And I don’t say that lightly, I would never have said that even six months ago.”
“But the closer we get to trials, the closer we get to trials, the more serious it becomes,” he continued. “Looking at how hardcore these indictments are from Smith and Willis, looking at the risk Trump is in. I don’t know if you saw him joking, quote-unquote, joking with his followers the other day. ‘I wish I was in France right now, not in America.’”
“You know, nothing is off the table with this guy,” Hasan said. “So I genuinely think we’ve got to talk about what you know, what is his exit strategy apart from plea? Does he have anything else he might want to do?”
Despite Hasan’s fretting about it, the former president isn’t about to tuck his tail between his legs and scurry off to some country without an extradition treaty with the U.S., more likely, he relishes the David vs. Goliath role that history and the ruthlessness of his enemies have thrust upon him.
For Democrats salivating over the unleashing of the nation’s politically tainted judicial system against their hated nemesis, constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley had a word of warning that the left’s big “whoo hoo” moment has the potential to backfire with a vengeance.
“These ‘Whoo-hoo’ moments are not shared by many who fear that these indictments are criminalizing political speech and chilling future challenges to elections. For many, it is hard to get beyond the name on the caption to consider the implications of downstream implications of these sweeping indictments,” Turley wrote in a Thursday op-ed.
“Many pundits are fully aware of the impact these cases (and the public celebrations) are likely to have on the Republican base. They hope that it will secure the nomination for Trump, thereby securing an easy opponent for the general election. Yet, they are also playing a dangerous political game if they overplay (or over-celebrate) this moment,” he added. “Trump was swept into power on an anti-establishment movement that took Washington by surprise. The establishment has now given Trump an even greater appeal as a statement of defiance, particularly if Democratic prosecutors seek to jail him.”
“It is the same feeling that I wrote about before the 2016 election. A significant number of those who oppose the indictments in polling are also expressing opposition to Trump as a candidate. That can easily change if the 2024 election becomes another vote against the establishment as opposed to a vote for Donald Trump,” Turley said.
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