How bad was the first Trump-free GOP debate? Jam-packed with authoritarian talking points. “These are not serious people,” says @mehdirhasan, but “that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous.” WATCH: youtube.com/4Q01ZEqRivU
“Nikki Haley asking the moderators to get control of this debate… was all of us last night”
@SymoneDSanders weighs in on Fox News’ Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, the GOP debate’s moderators.
“Every word he utters is directed at the Republican party base. He appeals to the worst of us, and that’s where the base is now.”
@WalshFreedom on why Ron DeSantis has not been knocked out of the race yet.
.@elonmusk's characterization of San Francisco as ‘post-apocalyptic’ is “woefully disconnected” from reality, @chesaboudin says. “It’s always a little disappointing to see people who really have no expertise, no background in [public policy] weigh in as though they’re experts.”
91 criminal counts, four separate cases, dozens of co-conspirators.
But if you remember one thing about Donald Trump’s alleged crimes, @mehdirhasan says, remember what the sitting president and his cronies did to two innocent black women in Georgia: youtube.com/Ne8mxEp3_Vo
Trump & others are facing charges in Georgia over the vicious targeting and harassment of Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, two Black election workers.
@MsLaToshaBrown tells @mehdirhasan Trump “is consistent around this – around weaponizing race, around weaponizing sexism.”
More than a year after @chesabousin was recalled as San Francisco district attorney, @mehdirhasan asks, does he plan to run for office again?
Watch his response:
For all the outcry on the right about rising crime, there’s one thing “Fox News does not want to show,” Fmr. San Francisco DA @chesaboudin tells @mehdirhasan. “Pro-Trump jurisdictions across the country have some of the highest crime rates.”
It’s been over a year since San Francisco ousted progressive DA Chesa Boudin over crime concerns. So what has happened since? Spoiler Alert: Violent crime is *up.*
@mehdirhasan breaks down what the backlash against progressive DA’s, including Boudin, is really about.
With Trump now indicted for a 4th time, the myth of Trump’s “nine legal lives” is imploding as he faces accountability, @TimOBrien tells @mehdirhasan. He’s in “waters he’s never swam in before.”
Conservatives are absurdly arguing the Georgia indictment charges Trump for acts that aren’t actual crimes. But law professor @AnthonyMKreis says it’s actually “par for the course of criminal law.” He explains how individual acts can be part of a larger criminal conspiracy.
In tonight's #handover, @MehdiRHasan and @AymanMSNBC talk about GOP faux outrage over the selection of David Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe. It's a "reminder that you can’t please the Republicans ... and so maybe Merrick Garland should just stop trying.”
House Dems are under fire for an AIPAC-affiliated trip to Israel, despite the judicial overhaul. @JeremyBenAmi says this is larger than AIPAC. "It's about the entirety of our political system being warped & our policies being warped by the influence of money in our politics."
"Somebody like Rudy Giuliani, who right now is just a co-conspirator in the Jack Smith election interference case but could be looking at being a codefendant in this [Georgia] case, somebody like Rudy Giuliani would be completely incentivized to flip." -@KatiePhang
An increasing number of Israelis and American Jews are starting to call Israel an apartheid state, and yet, some top Democrats are running into the arms of Benjamin Netanyahu. @MehdiRHasan says these Democrats will be remembered as being on the wrong side of history.
"Most of the ethnically-based civil wars are started by people who had once been dominant in a country but are in decline demographically." @bfwalter says the U.S. is closer to a civil war than most would like to believe.
.@MehdiRHasan warns that the threat of civil war is no longer hyperbole: “Political violence is not something abstract, or something that might happen at some point in the future, it’s happening right now."
"Trump knows he's in big trouble if he starts spouting violent rhetoric again. He's going to have the people around him do it for him...we're entering a very heightened threat environment." -@FrankFigliuzzi1