Reporter who's covered Trump for 20 years sounds alarm about his mental decline
January 19, 2024
Reacting to Donald Trump's Fox News interview on Thursday night where MSNBC labeled the former president as "dazed and confused," host Jonathan Lemire pointed out he has been covering the real estate magnate turned politician for decades and noted his decline is alarming.
After "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarbrough prompted Lemire by stating, "I think it is going to be harder and harder for the campaign to manage this guy, and in just my opinion, he looks like he's in a serious state of decline and seriously is so confused," the "Way Too Early" host jumped in.
"When I was a Metro reporter with the New York Daily News, we covered Trump from time to time 15, 20 years ago," Lemire recalled. " It's very clear he's not the same guy he was then and that post about presidential immunity also had the great Trump tell of this era, which is when he goes to all-caps."
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'When he goes to all-caps, and it is an all-caps screed, particularly about his legal predicaments, you know it is a window into how upset and anxious he is," he elaborated. "And that was the night where he was posting overnight repeatedly about E. Jean Carroll and other, quote, 'witchhunts' and then yesterday morning went so far as to say this, 'needing full immunity for even events that cross the line.'"
"This is something that feels like not only, of course, a scary projection of what could come in a second Trump term where he would say, 'I could do whatever I want and can't be prosecuted,'" he added.
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