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Transcript:
There are millions of people claiming that the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting was staged, and at the exact same time, you have parts of Donald Trump’s base saying the Butler assassination attempt against Trump was also fake. That is not coming from the left. It’s coming from MAGA, and we’re going to break down why none of it really holds up and what it tells you about how conspiratorial thinking spreads.
By the way, I was in D.C. and went into lockdown at a nearby event when that shooting happened. I’ll talk about that as well. And in reaction, Donald Trump giving a series of interviews that are quite difficult to watch. And it’s not just rambling answers and bizarre comments about war. Trump is also denying things that are clearly on video. We are going to look at that.
And a Fox host turns interview into praise session. And when we talk about what do these MAGA people even want interviews to look like, this is what they want interviews to look like: adulation, praise, almost just praying at the altar of Trump.
We also have a moment from CNN that shows how low the bar has gotten when it comes to political rhetoric.
And then moving forward, we will talk about, are we entering a system where citizenship can be taken away and revisited at scale? That’s what the administration is now threatening to do.
All of that and more today.
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