Treat Donald Trump like a combination of Al Capone and Osama bin Laden! That's what makes "complete sense" to an MSNBC anchor.
Nicolle Wallace might have had Thursday off from her MSNBC show, but even in her absence, the seething hatred for Trump remained rooted in place. Her substitute host was Alicia Menendez -- the daughter of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.. She ended a segment by summarizing the Trump probe:
"It makes complete sense why the January 6th committee is now using tactics normally reserved for mobsters and terrorists."
Yikes!
The 1-2-3 punch began with Michael Schmidt, the New York Times correspondent who has been romantically linked with Wallace. Building on a Times article he co-authored, Schmidt said that the January 6th committee has discovered gaps in Trump's presidential call logs. This because, instead of using official White House phone lines, Trump is said to have regularly used his personal cell phone and those of aides.
That in turn led Neal Katyal, Obama's former Acting Solicitor General (and Obama donor, Hillary donor, and Biden donor), to declare "it's not unusual if you're a mobster. And you do it because it makes things tough to trace. And that's what it looks like is going on here. I'm sure that Trump would have made his calls on pay phones if that didn't imply he had to leave the house. Indeed, Trump really did operate in this—and this is of a piece with other stories—in which he ran the presidency like a mob boss. You know, if you don't create a record, you can't get caught."
You know this is a Democrat cable "news" channel when the entire first half hour of this show was about Donald Trump and January 6. It makes complete sense when the January 6 committee is all about putting Republicans in the worst light with an eye on the midterms. It's what you do when Joe Biden is polling in the low 40s. It might explain Mike Schmidt's perpetual dour face.
MSNBC anchor Alicia Menendez saying it makes "complete sense" for Donald Trump to be treated like a mobster or terrorist was sponsored in part by Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Constant Contact, and DirecTV.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Deadline White House
2/10/22
4:09 pm ETMICHAEL SCHMIDT: What Trump would do was use his phone, and other people's phones, to make calls.
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NEAL KATYAL: You have said it's unusual to borrow cell phones from other people. But it's not unusual if you're a mobster. And you do it because it makes things tough to trace. And that's what it looks like is going on here. I'm sure that Trump would have made his calls on pay phones if that didn't imply he had to leave the house. Indeed, Trump really did operate in this—and this is of a piece with other stories—in which he ran the presidency like a mob boss. You know, if you don't create a record, you can't get caught.
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ALICIA MENENDEZ: And it makes complete sense why the January 6th committee is now using tactics normally reserved for mobsters and terrorists.
