>> Ever since the Kenosha terrorist, Kyle
Rittenhouse, murdered multiple people some
while trying to flee from his first murder.
We have been predicting that the right would
rally around him defending him and perhaps
lauding him as a hero. It didn't take long.
Tucker Carlson started doing it almost instantly.
And all the randos on Twitter and YouTube,
they immediately saw him as one of their own.
But Trump has been a little bit cagey about
talking about it up until this point, liking
some tweets implying that he's a hero. But
he's being asked specific questions now. Here
he is yesterday during his press conference
being asked about Kyle Rittenhouse and his
multiple murders.
Take a look at how he handled that question.
>> It was a supporter of yours, Mr President,
that's accused of killing two people.
>> Are you gonna condemn the actions of vigilantes
like Kyle Rittenhouse, and-
>> We're looking at all of it. That was an
interesting situation. You saw the same tape
as I saw, and he was trying to get away from
them.
I guess, it looks like, and he fell, and then
they very violently attacked him. And it was
something that we're looking at right now.
And it's under investigation, but I guess
he was in very big trouble he would have been.
He probably would have been killed, but it's
under investigation.
>> Do you think private citizens should be
taking-
>> I'd like to see law enforcement take care
of everything. I think everything should be
taken care of law enforcement. But again,
we have to give our cops back, our police
back, their dignity.
>> Okay, so asked to denounce a guy that murdered
multiple people, who brought a gun, that he
never should have had, illegally across state
borders to a place he never should have been.
Killed someone and while people tried to apprehend
the murderer, killed additional people, I
mean, come on. If you really thought Trump
is gonna finally, at this late moment, turn
and embrace the light and say okay, look.
I'm, a demagogue, but at some point a line
has to be drawn.
Welcome to 2020 America. No, no, he said,
he probably would have been killed. And we
gotta give our cops our dignity back. I mean,
they were they really coming at him hard and
I'm gonna pretend that I don't know that he
was fleeing his first murder already. And
indeed, would flee all the way back to his
home state.
They did it. He's defending him, Dan, he's
defending the murderer, the terrorist.
>> I mean, John I remember when we were doing
this around the Heather Hire times where Trump
got up and said there are very fine people
on both sides. And there was, back then I
subjected myself to much more Ben Shapiro
than I do now.
But back then, even the argument wasn't even
what you are saying that, look, it's very
clear that Trump is dog whistling to racists
or giving a pass to racists. But actually
the conservative argument framing back then,
which I think was actually kind of interesting.
Was that look, we kind of knew who Trump was
when we were getting into it.
He's not always the smartest person. He's
not always going to deliver things in the
most clear kind of finely tuned way. I mean,
he's not a typical president. That was the
appeal of him. But that was a really awkwardly
sort of way to kind of dance around the fact
that, yeah, he is doing really terrible things
rhetorically that have political consequences.
Such as giving these right wing terrorists,
they need to be called terrorists and nothing
different, a pass. There was that study from
2018 or 2019 that was like 98 or 100% of all
of the domestic terror incidents in the country
were because of right wing terrorists. It's
a thing that the Trump side of the party has
been dragging their feet on addressing because
it's part of their voting block.
It's part of their base. It gives them some
negotiating power on the global stage because
people don't want to, or his political opponents
don't want to touch that or poke the bear
per se. So-
>> Yeah.
>> We need to be forceful, continue being
forceful and calling this out for what it
is.
>> Yeah 100%, and what the strategy is, and
all of the different forms that the hypocrisy
takes. And then even beyond how obviously
wrong it is, the truths that I think we all
understand at this point that lie underneath.
Which is Donald Trump is getting up there
and no matter what his followers do, he will
always defend them.
Worst case scenario, he'll both sides it,
as we'll get from Kaylee McEnaney in a little
bit. But if it's Kyle Rittenhouse murdering
multiple people, if it's people in Portland
as we'll get to, shooting paintballs at people.
If it's supporters of his that are sending
pipe bombs to places, there's never going
to be sort of a taking stock.
And there doesn't need to be. Because we're
not supposed to say this, we're supposed to
be polite and imply that Americans across
the political spectrum, Americans that identify
under different parties. We disagree on some
things, but we're fundamentally all the same
at the end of the day. No, we're not, his
supporters want more vigilante murders.
They want more domestic terror incidents like
this. They didn't think that pipe bombs being
sent to CNN was a terrible thing. They don't
think Kyle Rittenhouse going to Kenosha and
shooting people is a terrible thing. They
think it's good and they want more of it.
And they will support Trump even more, the
more of it there is.
And he and Fox News are telling them every
day that this is needed, that this is patriotic.
That this is the best thing you can do is
to brutalize people, to murder people, to
terrorize people. That's what his base wants.
That's why they're supporting him. It is not
economic anxiety, okay.
It is weaponized, murderous, xenophobia and
hatred. That's what it is.
>> And yes, on top of that, he is also telling
his base that Black Lives Matter. The organization
that we started the show by saying not every
organization or group is perfect. But they've
been on the front lines for years now on this
front of racial injustice and criminal injustice
in our country.
And he's calling them the terrorist organization,
stoking fear and provoking these kinds of
incidents. And you mentioned a really good
point about the consequences of not taking
stock of these incidences when they happen,
we have the consequences now. More people
are dying. I hate to be the kind of person,
bring myself into the story too much, but
I feel less safe in the last couple of months
before the election.
With this being the political climate, this
being the dividing lines between people whether
or not someone who killed someone else in
a political event was right or wrong. As a
African American male, it sucks. It sucks
that this is the country that we're living
in and these are the direct consequences of
that.
>> Yeah and before we move on, I just want
to say, I tweeted something to this effect
earlier. And it's seems sick, slash is sick
to have to say something like this. But I
really do think that at this point, we as
a country, I guess on the left or even ump
in centrist, people who are not part of MAGA
or whatever.
People who might participate in these protests.
We are so lucky at this point that they are
just coming to the streets of places like
Kenosha and Portland and murdering individual
people. That seems sick. But that's not the
end game of this. Kyle going there and shooting
two people is not the worst that this could
or probably will be.
That is not the violence that they're craving
on the right. They want something bigger.
And they have enough people, enough crazy
people with access to enough weapons that
it is not gonna be limited to two people being
shot at any one time. It's gonna be a bomb
or it's gonna be a mass shooting.
That is what this is building to. Now we've
had murders throughout, basically from the
very beginning. Whether it's cops or random
right wingers, trying to run people down,
shooting them. That's happened multiple times.
But at some point, it's gonna be way bigger.
And I wanna prep everyone in the audience
for that horrible day.
That will not be the line that finally causes
them to turn back either. Trump will be asked
a question, at some point, about the 30 or
40 or 50 or 100 people that were killed, and
he will what about it? He will say, well antifa
did something one time.
So just prepare yourself for that. It's gonna
get a lot darker even before the election.
But if Trump gets reelected, after running
on this law and order, stamping out the fascist,
communist threat thing. Hes not gonna suddenly
just set that to the side because he won re-election.
So just prepare yourself for it to get much
darker and for there to be no line, at the
end of the day, that will cause them to turn
away from this.
