Feeding the narrative, a document-waving Ali Velshi opened up a firehose of fearmongering with an entire hour dedicated to an already debunked claim about a potential second Trump administration.
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In a prime example of how corporate media mollycoddles their viewers when it comes to facing facts, MSNBC host Ali Velshi has continued his crusade against a version of former President Donald Trump that exists exclusively in the minds of TDS sufferers. To do so, after already harping about it “on every single show,” he took an hour of his broadcast to encourage his viewers not to do their own homework on Project 2025.
Like Russian collusion, “fine people on both sides” and “bloodbaths,” The Heritage Foundation-proposed Presidential Transition Project joined a series of efforts to demonize the GOP leader that has persisted even after he’d renounced some of the proposals as “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”
That didn’t stop Velshi from kicking off an hour Sunday feeding off of the Democratic Party’s “get Trump” mentality with a clip of Vice President Kamala Harris invoking the think tank proposal. “Okay, you heard Harris mention Project 2025, which is the right-wing’s 922-page manifesto to overhaul the American government should Trump retake the White House. It’s something we’ve covered extensively here on ‘Velshi,’ on every single show since it’s been released.”
“And coming up in the next hour, we’re going to go inside Project 2025 for the entire hour,” he continued with the sales pitch, “We’re reading the whole thing so you don’t have to. We’ll break down the details of some of the most important chapters with some of the smartest experts in each field.”
Spinning recent remarks from the president about not having to vote in future elections to mean the GOP leader sought to do away with the practice altogether, Velshi likened the analysis to previous coverage from his own network on doomsaying over Trump comments.
“Donald Trump’s authoritarian desires are well-known, and hearing him say he’ll end voting is just the latest in a long string of examples, which also include the time he called for the termination of the U.S. Constitution during a Truth Social rant in December of 2022 because doing so would help his personal legal causes,” asserted the host.
The post in question read, “So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”
Velshi’s reference to the post saw him pivot to another boogeyman of ideologues, the Supreme Court, as he lamented the recent ruling regarding presidential immunity that had the left fuming Trump had been named king despite the reality that their takeaway currently only applied to incumbent President Joe Biden, “Although, as it turned out, the Supreme Court sort of did that for him in its unhinged presidential immunity decision. Should Trump win and retake the White House, we know what to expect. After all, we do have this 922-page playbook.”
As had been covered, Trump himself had smacked down any association with the specific plan to reduce the size and scope of the federal government and posted in early July, “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
The more the MSNBC host attempted to connect the GOP leader to Project 2025 with “experts” like peer and former chief spokesperson for Harris Symone Sanders-Townsend, the more he left users on social media warming to the proposals it contained and viewing him as little more than a conspiracy theorist.
“Ultra Conservatism” sounds a whole lot better than the eco-communism that the fascist, far-left Democrats have planned.
— R.J. Kendall (@RJ_Kendall) July 28, 2024
The media and their hyperbolic reaction to everything that’s not activism for the Democrat Party is a much greater danger to this nation. It’s so negative and turns people like this guy into a nutjob.
— Rachel E (@REPsmile) July 28, 2024
— Robert L. Peters (@FakeNewsSiren) July 28, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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