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Reacting to a late-night outburst by Donald Trump where he threatened "death and destruction" if he is indicted in a Manhattan courtroom, the MSNBC "Morning Joe" panel was in agreement that the former president is scared to death and becoming increasingly unmoored from reality.
After midnight, Trump took to his Truth Social account to lash out at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, writing: "What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?" Trump wrote. "Why and who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath that truely (sic) hates the USA!"
That led MSNBC host Al Sharpton to comment, "Beneath it all, from when I knew Donald Trump before, I think that he is very nervous. We are looking at a man that is becoming unhinged," before later adding the Truth Social rant "shows a man that has lost control. He is hearing footsteps and they're getting closer."
"The guy is shaking in his boots," host Joe Scarborough later added. "Now, of course, he's threatening the lives of other people."
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"But you read these tweets or whatever you call it on that failing platform, and this is a guy who, you're right, he's out of his mind scared," he continued. "He is melting down. Now, he is threatening riots that will lead to death and destruction if he is charged with a misdemeanor."
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A planned visit to France from Sunday by King Charles III has been postponed due to ongoing protests over pension reform, the French presidency announced.
“Given the announcement yesterday of another national day of protests against pension reform on Tuesday March 28, the visit of Charles III, initially scheduled from 26-28 March, has been postponed,” a statement said.
Charles was due to arrive with Queen Consort Camilla on Sunday evening before spending a day in Paris on Monday and travelling to Bordeaux in the southwest on Tuesday.
The trip was due to be his first foreign tour as sovereign since ascending to the throne last September.
After France Charles was expected to travel to Germany on Wednesday.
The French presidency said the decision was made after a call between President Emmanuel Macron and the king on Friday morning.
The decision was “in order to be able to welcome His Majesty King III in conditions which reflect our friendly relations.”
“This state visit will be reorganized as soon as possible,” the statement added.
A total of 457 people were arrested and 441 security forces injured on Thursday during nationwide protests against the pensions reform in a major escalation of the unrest.
Trade unions announced another round of strikes for Tuesday when Charles and Camilla were due in Bordeaux, with their provisional schedule including a trip to city hall.
The entrance to the public building was set on fire on Thursday.
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Trump sending 'bat signal' for violence with posts 'straight out of Nazi Germany': Morning Joe panel
March 24, 2023
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and John Heilemann called out Donald Trump for stoking violence with rhetoric "straight out of Nazi Germany" as he attempts to stave off criminal charges.
The former president used language reminiscent of his calls for action ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection as Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg weighs an indictment, and the "Morning Joe" panelists believed Trump was trying to threaten the prosecutor.
"What is taking place here in New York City over the course of the week, you had from the moment that Trump came out on Truth Social last weekend and called on his supporters to protest, some would say that was incitement to riot," Heilemann said. "Some would say it was reminiscent of the calls he put out before Jan. 6, echoes were strongly there. You saw, you know, the police barricades were laid out throughout New York City. We saw those, the footage. I saw it here in the city, you had the police department told its officers to go out in dress blues and project some sense of force."
Trump's posts on Thursday referred to Bragg as an "animal" and "human scum" who was "doing the work of the devil," and Heilemann said he sounded an "antisemitic dog whistle" by tying the DA to billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who is Jewish, and Scarborough said his rhetoric had an alarming historical precedent.
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"If this isn't fascist-type language and fascist-type imagery," Scarborough said. "Here you have a former president of the United States -- let's face it, Republicans, he's your guy, he's the head of your party -- with a baseball bat in a split screen and a prosecutor who he is calling human scum. I mean, I'm sorry, is that straight out of Nazi Germany, calling him human scum, calling him an animal, doing the George Soros lie. We're going to dig into that, about what a lie that is, more anti-Semitic dog whistling from Donald Trump, and every Republican, it seems, that talks about this, they just can't help but engaging in the anti-Semitic dog whistling, going against a Holocaust survivor. We could show you this, but go back to the image of the baseball bat while John talks. Look at this. this guy was once president of the United States."
Heilemann said the former president's posts could potentially put him in additional legal jeopardy as a direct threat to a public official.
"It is a provocative image, to say the least -- dangerous, incendiary," Heilemann said. "There's been a lot of discussions around the security that is being put in place to try to protect Alvin Bragg here in Manhattan. You guys made the point earlier, there is no doubt, we don't know what Donald Trump's supporters will or won't do if he is or isn't indicted, but what we have seen over the course of this week is that when Donald Trump threw up the Trump signal, the bat signal on Saturday and tried to move this case out of the legal realm and into the political realm."
House Republicans have already rushed to his aid and demanded a look inside Bragg's investigation.
"He asked them to jump. they said, 'How high?'" Heilemann said. "They're aiding in his effort to try to delegitimize, disrupt, wreak some kind of chaos that will, I guess in trump's view, advantage him politically somehow, potentially disrupt the proceedings of the grand jury. We have no reason to think that has happened yet, but in Donald Trump's world today, in Donald Trump's head, he thinks he won this week."
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