Piers Morgan silenced on own TV show as guest schools him on Trump

Conservative pundit Piers Morgan was silenced on his own television show Wednesday when broadcaster Mehdi Hasan delivered a brutal rundown of his reasons why former President Donald Trump should not be reelected as president.

"He's a racist by any definition of the term," Hasan told Morgan. "You said you were going to give me some facts about Trump? Let me give you some actual facts."

Hasan focused on evidence he said proved Trump is mentally unfit to serve in the White House.

This argument was also made by Democrats during the Hur Report hearing Tuesday with a video montage of gaffes — captured by outlets such as MSNBC and Fox News — that the former president claimed in a late-night social media post had been generated by artificial intelligence.

"Let's just talk factually," Hasan told Morgan. "Donald Trump recently confused Nancy Pelosi with Nikki Haley, he claimed he ran against Barack Obama in 2016 — he ran against Hillary Clinton. He thought we were about to enter World War II — we've actually had World War II."

Those three points survive a basic fact check. Trump confused Pelosi and Haley during a campaign speech in January. Trump claimed he ran against Obama at an October rally and also frequently conflates the former two-term Democrat with current President Joe Biden. And finally, Trump warned Biden's "impaired" faculties would lead the nation into a war that occurred decades ago.

Hasan took a deep breath and continued.

"He thinks you can stop a hurricane with a nuclear weapon, he thinks you need ID to buy cereal, he thinks you can buy Greenland from Denmark, he thinks England and Great Britain are the same thing, he thinks stealth bombers are literally invisible, he thinks you can beat COVID by injecting disinfectant into your veins," Hasan said.

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Once again, Hasan is correct. As president, Trump repeatedly suggested national security officials explore the use of nuclear bombs against hurricanes. His identification-for-cereal argument appeared in a 2018 argument for stricter voting laws. Trump suggested F-35s couldn't be seen because they evade radar detection. During the pandemic, Trump suggested disinfectant injections would "clean" the lungs.

"The idea that this man should be let near a school board is absurd," Hasan said. "The idea that he should allowed near the White House, again, after everything...madness."

At this point Morgan tried to defend his coverage of Trump, telling Hasan, "I've been critical of him on many occasions."

"Not enough," Hasan snapped.

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