President Donald Trump is a "sociopath" who is "capable of horrific deeds" MSNBC viewers were warned on Friday evening.
Anchor Donnie Deutsch, host of the new MSNBC show "Saturday Night Politics" was interviewed by Brian Williams on "The 11th Hour."
"I don’t want to end dark, but I’m going to have to. That is to say that, when you are on deadline White House with Nicole Wallace at 4:00 in the afternoon, you are often one of the voices that reminds the table and reminds the viewers beyond exactly how bad things are in your view and exactly how dark we’ve gotten," Williams explained. "But like the frog boiling experiment, it hasn’t felt like that. It would feel like that if we took a vacation on the moon and came back."
"So the question, how dark are things right now to you?" Williams asked.
"Very, very dark," Deutsch replied.
"And I want to say this with no exaggeration. If you look throughout history and you become a student of history, the worst of what humans have done throughout history, Trump is using that playbook in every way you possibly can," he explained.
"You start with creating an 'other,' you get enough rich people to look the other way and that’s how you get power. And then what you do is obviously you destroy the credibility of a press," he continued. "You get a judicial system that is no longer independent. You start to blur the separation of powers."
"And we should be very frightened," he warned.
"I believe this man is capable of horrific, horrific deeds. I’m not saying specifically what that is, but let your imagination go," he suggested. "So the Democrats better get this one right."
"It is no longer darkness on the edge of town, it’s come downtown and all around," Williams replied.
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