MS NOW's Jen Psaki kicked off "The Briefing" Thursday night with a rundown of the utter failure of President Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" on the National Mall — and highlighted one moment in particular she thought was incredibly bizarre.
"This was the scene on Tuesday, when there were actually more in the band on stage than there were in the crowd watching them," said Psaki, showing footage of the fair. Crowds did not improve as the week progressed, she noted, "thanks in part to the absolutely bizarre entertainment choices the Trump team booked for the affair."
"This is one of my favorites because it's so strange, this moment when the guy who used to co-host Ted Cruz's podcast seemed to defend the Salem Witch Trials in an apparent debate with someone who I'm guessing is about ten years old," said Psaki, playing the clip of Daily Wire commentator Michael Knowles.
"But the one area where the Salem Witch Trials went a little far is, I would say, they weren't organized enough," said Knowles in the clip. "So you had these random judges kind of burning these ladies." (The condemned at the Salem Witch Trials were hanged, not burned.)
"I'm not — I don't know if they were guilty or not, but I think more if it were more formalized, built up a little bit more maybe with like a Grand Inquisitor or something, that would have been a better way to do it," Knowles continued.
"If you don't know what you watched there, I don't know what I watched there either," said Psaki. "But I do know that the person he is talking to ... is definitely a child."
As all this played out, Psaki continued, "you can also see the people who gathered to watch them. And as bizarre as that was to watch, it may have also had the biggest crowd of any event I've seen at this particular fair," with "at least a dozen" spectators. And "things haven't improved since then. I mean, here was the scene earlier today when the stage actually started to fall apart and nearly crushed a group of performers."
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