Schmidt: Book Looks At Those Who Work To ‘Contain’ Trump | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Reporter Michael Schmidt joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book ‘Donald Trump V. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President’. Aired on 9/1/2020.
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Schmidt: Book Looks At Those Who Work To 'Contain' Trump | Morning Joe | MSNBC

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    1. @orphan 200 Agree! If
      tRump said that crap at my sons grave, I’m afraid I would be in jail for assault.
      What a disgraceful father!

    1. Facts we gave him a chance and he failed us greatly now it’s time for him to go

      but his plot is to scare us he wins when we the american people are afraid

  1. Michael Schmidt is wonderful .. a dedicated reporter, journalist and author. He is outstanding in his patriotism. Bravo.

    1. @below me
      Sister, its not your fault.
      You crack babies can truly blame your mommies!
      Hope she gets into rehab someday!

    2. @below me
      A link?
      Bwaaaaaaaahahabahahahaha
      Look everyone! I have a link!
      I must be right because I have a link!
      Look at my link everyone…it proves I’m really really right and true….
      I HAVE A LINK!
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    3. @Richard Brautigan a link? why, this changes everything! the man`s got a link, the scales have dropped from my eyes! hosanna in the highest!

    1. We need to make it perfectly obvious that he’s totally lost on November 3 before the polls close, even before the mail ballots are done counting.

  2. Republicans have won the popular vote (narrowly) just ONCE in the last 32 years. The American people overwhelmingly favor democratic policies. Republicans win by gerrymandering, voter suppression and new to Trump – Foreign interference.

    1. Mango, If it wasn’t for foreign interference(AKA Ivana & Melania) Trump would still be perving on little girls to this day.

    2. Don’t forget the growing number and disturbing coalitions of police officers with random armed white guy gangs as Trumpian ‘militia’.

    1. @Stephanie Logan could be. I’m just counting covid-19 but who truly knows what the true count is. Then adding the other deaths because of his policy changes and the right wing extremists he cultivated the count is unknown

    2. Only if he gets a second term. Biden will surely listen to the experts and get the thing under control like the rest of the free world.

    3. Possibly, just possibly, this entire years long drama will have shaken everybody in the country up so badly, by testing every facet of government which has been found to be horrendously inadequate, that statutes will be rewritten. Where honour systems existed, all be entered into law including and especially presidents and their vices. This should be done to fortify safeguards to stop even the offchance of such events recurring.

    4. More Americans have died so far from Covid19 than in WW l,and are about half way to WW ll totals.The problem is a virus can’t be shot and killed by a gun,only by medical knowledge and cooperation by the American people.Trump doesn’t care about medical experts and he has not led by example to encourage people to follow guidelines.The virus is receding in most other countries,but increasing in the US.The results of an incompetent President and his response.

  3. Politicians should play no part in selecting judges for the supreme court. The court is meant to be impartial, not filled with religious thinking zealots.

    1. @Kathryn Shaw lol now every time I look at trump all I will see is one of those wee bobble heads bouncing around 🤣🤣🤣🤣 thats brilliant, a bobble head 🤣🤣🤣

    2. @muadhib001 – Your statement that the “USA is a joke” is precisely why citizens must take their right to vote very seriously. No building is any better than it’s foundation. The foundation of America is the character, expertise and experience of the people that we elect to lead us. Too much sand in the mix and the foundation will crumble. People elected who have proven that they do not have the best interests of America or of Americans should not be given a second chance. These are about important issues. This is not about frivolous matters like the color of your suit or the location of your haircut. This is about did you make decisions or statements that ultimately led to the deaths of others? Why did you take such an action? Were your actions an effort to protect and preserve the USA, or was your intent driven by self-interest or even foreign interest? Americans have demanded self-auditing in every sector of our society for almost 50 years now. Do these politicians welcome or resist these efforts at quality control. We all know that Donald Trump has resisted every effort by the House Oversight Committee to the extent of taking every single question to court. Right now, the USA is a very deadly place to be, especially for those who consider themselves “friends” of the president. I hope that this next election brings out citizens determined to vote for the well-being and longevity of America. Make your vote count. Vote Blue. .

    3. @Silky – Presidents have attempted court packing before. However, we currently have a Senator that has “gone rogue”. He has usurped many of the powers and duties of the President of the United States of America when in reality he is simply one of two elected Senators from a very poor State. He has chosen to get rich through bribes, graft and other forms of corruption. He and the Federalist Society, not Trump, have been packing the courts. It would be one thing if these people were noteworthy for their legal expertise, but they are not. This political fringe group is willing to put rapists, murderers, thieves or any other piece of scum on the Federal bench for a lifetime paycheck just as long as they agree to roll over on command. Trump has provided the distraction, while McConnell has actually been running the country or not. The only bills that the Senate has been allowed to work on during this presidency are the ones that personally help McConnell. He has been an unforgivable bottleneck in our Legislative Branch. When it became clear that Trump’s actions were jeopardizing the reelection plans of Republican Senators, McConnell put a halt on the second Stimulus Package. McConnell made it clear to Trump who was really in charge.

    1. @House Majority name 1 Republican ran city or state with riots ? I can name 4 DemocRat ran states with riots or homicides

    1. Not really. The military is standing there. They are why Trump is in power. I need a break so an going over to try to save the TBs from abuse and suffering at the racetracks.

  4. name one dictator in history that was “contained” The real scary thing is the USA is showing how people like Hitler got a foothold.

    1. Last year I wrote: “He is going to do something” is the headline of one chapter of the last published book “A Warning” of the so called Anonymous, a certainly entertaining instalment in a row of many already published and expected yet to come… The so called “adults in the room” underestimated his (Trump) ability to disrupt and overestimated their ability to contain it.”

    2. That is a true statement and because they thought Hitler was joking but now we know how that turned out. In this instance the same thing is happening and saddest thing is, most want it too happen while the rest does nothing to stop it. Sort of like having you’re head in the sand…hoping it goes away

  5. How depressing to find out that everyone in the white house has a personal agenda and it’s never for the American people.

    1. Last year I wrote: “The three years of his tenure appeared to be even worse I could have imaged, for I had no idea how far his mental decline was forgone. In the end it led me to the conclusion, that he was merely a figurehead for all the multiple fractions who enabled him. I do not buy it for one second that they had thought he himself will make good policy in general, merely his enablers try to manipulate him to serve their own agenda as he is so easily impressible. Their contradicting agendas are clearly reflecting his erratic conduct. The so called “adults in the room” underestimated his ability to disrupt and overestimated their ability to contain it.”

    2. These people are puppets for the Draco-reptilians. Supposedly, the bloodline families and the Freemasons are getting killed off around the 1st of the year. They will not relinquish their satanic power. I hear 22 Rothshilds are broke and in China trying to start WWIII. The White Dragon Society is broke. The PM of Japan resigned. A powerful Jesuit died. This all means the powerful Cabal are not so much these days. The end is near.

    3. Susanne Härtl why is this not the first comment on here?! That was the most intelligent and eloquent comment I have ever read! Hats off to you ma’am!
      Susanne Härtl 2020! 😉

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