Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was interrupted by protesters on Monday while leading supporters in a pledge to vote for him, which has been deemed "fascist" by the former head of the Anti-Defamation League.
According to former Anti-Defamation League Director Abe Foxman, Trump knew what he was doing when he asked supporters in Orlando over the weekend to raise their hands "in what looks like the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute."
On Monday, Trump asked supporters in Concord, North Carolina to say "the pledge" with him again.
"Oh, we have a protesters," Trump smiled. "Out! Out! Out! Be nice. Out."
"Get out of here," the candidate said as several protesters were escorted to the door. "Get out."
"See the way he puts up his hand, he puts out the wrong finger," Trump noted. "And we're supposed to take it nowadays, folks."
Watch the video below from MSNBC, broadcast March 7, 2016.
On Monday morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough offered up a heaping helping of scorn for members of Congress and supporters of Donald Trump for believing every word that comes out of his mouth, saying they are getting played and they should know better by now.
Reacting to the former president's made-up claim that he was going to be arrested almost one week ago, the "Morning Joe" host stated that those who expressed outrage against the government over the bogus claim need to admit they are being used.
At one point, focusing on the Trump-inspired John Durham investigation that turned up nothing, Scarborough exclaimed, "Every time they do this they make fools of themselves."
Claiming Durham "humiliated himself," he added, "When that all blew up in their face, he was left looking like a fool. Now I know a couple of people at the Wall Street Journal editorial page who tried to prop him up a little bit because it was so humiliating, but it didn't work, he just humiliated himself. And then you have [Ohio Republican] Jim Jordan who is investigating the investigators on Capitol Hill and that is blowing up in his face. He's looking like a fool."
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"And now you've got all these Trumpers going, 'We owned the lbs last week, we owned the libs,' when it was Trump again who said on Tuesday I'm going to be charged on Tuesday' -- ended up not being charged," he added.
Addressing Trump's bogus claim that he'd learned from a purported "leak" that he would be taken into custody, Scarborough singled out Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for amplifying the lie.
"Elise Stefanik goes 'oh, leaks, leaks.' There were no leaks. It was Donald Trump who did it and now these morons a week later are going, 'ooooh, the libs,'" he laughed.
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Vandals scrawled a racial slur in front of a church whose Black pastor had just entered the town's mayoral race.
Timothy Dunston, the pastor at New Life Temple Church of God and Christ, found the slur written in orange on a road in front of his church in Mount Vernon shortly after filing his intention to run for mayor, reported WFIE-TV.
“I rode over the top of it, and I know I said, ‘Wait a minute,’ and I backed up and I said, 'Well, this just don’t make no sense,’” Dunston said. "So I just went on to the house and went home and got my phone, came back and took a picture of it because I just couldn’t believe that people are like this in this year.”
Evelyn Stewart, who lives right behind the church, said her grandchildren told her about the vandalism.
“My granddaughter took pictures and she was like, ‘Are they supposed to do that?’ and I said, ‘No, it’s not supposed to happen like this,’ but sometimes you have ignorant people,” Stewart said.
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A security camera at a business across the street was pointed toward the area where the slur was written, so police are analyzing those records for evidence.
“I want everybody to know, that shall not deter me,” Dunston said. "You can write everything you want to write, don’t make no difference. What that does is inspire me to do better. I know now we need to do something here in this city to try to keep this stuff gone.”
Donald Trump supporters' adulation for the former president is tantamount to "brainwashing," said former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham on CNN Monday.
This comes after Trump held a rally in Waco, Texas, under a cloud of accusations that he picked the venue to send a message to extremist militia groups, and as his supporters remain defiant in the face of his likely impending indictment in New York — a problem he is now trying to capitalize on, Grisham argued.
"This is just typical him, trying to deflect and get people to just pay attention to him," said Grisham. "Honestly, this is what he does. He distracts people ... he has no idea what's going on, so he's going to continue to play the victim and fundraise and take advantage of the people who really, really believe in him."
"Well, that's a sad thing, though," said anchor Don Lemon. "It's because he's raised a lot of money off of this, especially since last week when he said it's going to happen on Tuesday, and now it has been dropped. He is continuing to raise money here and using people who, you know, believe him to get their money. I mean, why? Why do they continue to believe him when he has no evidence of any of it, but his pockets are getting heavier?"
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"You know, I mean, as somebody who worked for him and believed in him for a while, I think that there are still so many people out there who see him as a regular person, and it's like a brainwashing," said Grisham. "I can't even describe it to you as I've been out of it for two years, and I sit back and watch. I feel the same disbelief that I just heard in your voice. But there's so many people who believe that he really wants the best for this country and that aren't seeing, for whatever reason, that he really just wants the best for himself."
"I think it's also important to highlight, though, what we're seeing on the ground because ... he had this rally in Waco, Texas, on Saturday," said anchor Kaitlan Collins. "The former president did. There were a lot of people there. There was a lot of enthusiasm around it. So we hear a lot of Republicans — not a lot, but Republicans — who predicted Trump's influence over the party is fading. It's clearly still there."
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