All posts tagged "Cultists"

Former President Donald Trump is effectively presiding over a cult, said minister and longtime civil rights activist Al Sharpton on MSNBC Friday. And that is the key reason his influence is so hard to unseat among his supporters.

However, Sharpton said, this also points to a way that his hold on the GOP could ultimately become undone.

"I have always been obsessed and almost fixated with the asymmetry," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "So Trump's bond with his supporters is cult-like. And that's bad and toxic in all the ways that a cult is bad and toxic. And it has the consequence of having them go out and do things for him that in a political and electoral context regardless of ... a conviction. The other candidates raised their hand and said they, too, will support him if he was convicted. How do you contest, in the political arena, someone who goes into the political arena as a cult leader?"...

A former federal law enforcement official on Wednesday suggested the fight against global terror offers a road map for deradicalizing extremist elements of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement.

But former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline White House with Nicole Wallace” acknowledged there is a limited role for law enforcement in such efforts.

“So why would they break with him, or condemn him,” Wallace said, noting Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he’d vote for Trump even after the former president smeared his wife, Elaine Chao....