‘Danger To Our Country And The World!’ Hillary Clinton And MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Torch Trump Over ‘Dangerous And Racist Lies’

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton torched former President Donald Trump as a “danger to our country” over things like “dangerous and racist lies” about immigrants.

The latest foiled assassination plot against Trump has sparked intense media attention, as Trump blames the attempts on criticisms from opponents at the same time he is under fire for building his campaign around false smears about Haitian migrants and others.

On Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, the host ran through a series of Trump “outrages” and asked Sec.

MADDOW: I am struck by the fact that, as his campaign careens into very, very offensive territory, the association with Holocaust deniers and the outrages at Arlington National Cemetery, of all places, the insults to recipients of the Medal of Honor, the recent incredibly racist and dangerous lies about specific groups of immigrants, Haitians, in this case, and Venezuelans in the case of Colorado.

I am struck by the fact that, as much as we thought we might have been inoculated against sort of outrage tactics like that, where everything else gets thrown by the wayside and everybody starts responding to his outrage du jour, it’s a way of sort of yanking everybody’s chain, I sort of feel like we haven’t learned.

And he’s still being taught, especially by the media, that the more offensive he is, the more he can dominate the media space entirely. And I feel like you have been a good diagnoser of that, not only from when you were up against him, but from what others have done so.

Do you have an antidote for that or a way that people can talk themselves out of taking that bait?

CLINTON: I think that’s really a critical question.

And I think there’s a couple of things going on here. You mentioned the press. And, sadly, the press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should. They careen from one outrage to the next. What was outrageous three days ago is no longer on the front pages, even though it threatens the physical safety of so many people, particularly, as you point out, immigrants that he and Vance have decided to demonize.

And I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is! The late, great journalist Harry Evans one time said that journalists should really try to achieve objectivity. And by that, he said, I mean, they should cover the object.

Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump, his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world, and stick with it! They were merciless about what they saw as President Biden’s problems in the debate and calling for him to withdraw. I believe Donald Trump has disqualified himself over and over and over again to be a presidential candidate, let alone a president.

The second thing, though, is that part of what Trump is counting on is for people to get desensitized. I mean, oh, my gosh, did you hear what he said yesterday? Did you hear who he attacked? Did you hear the viciousness?

And it’s just, like with a shrug, OK, fine we’re moving on. Well, Americans need to understand that they have to take Trump both seriously and literally. He has said what he wants to do. He and his allies with Project 2025, his desire to be a dictator, at least on day one, all of that is in the public record.

And I believe that more Americans have to be willing to endure what, frankly, is discomforting and to some extent kind of painful, to take him at his word and to be outraged by what he represents.

And then, finally, the hopeful side of this is that I do think more and more Americans are rejecting the kind of chaos that he represents. We can’t go back. That’s what the Harris campaign says all the time. We’re not going back. We’re not going back to what he failed to do to protect American lives during COVID.

We’re not going back to the romance with dictators that puts innocent lives at risk and America’s security in danger. We can’t go back and give this very dangerous man another chance to do harm to our country and the world.

Watch above via MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.

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