Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig told MSNBC that it was clear Donald Trump is "rooting against" some Americans that he doesn't like.
The comments came amid a New York Times report detailing Trump's rise to power on the backs of what were largely external threats like immigrants and Muslim countries. Now, he's targeting Americans themselves as his "vermin."
"He talked about protecting, for example, Americans from having to fight in endless wars and he would work to stop that," Leonnig recalled. "Now his rhetoric has moved more into the vain of rooting out what he described the other day as vermin inside the country. An internal threat."
She called it a kind of "way station" between 2016 to 2017 and the campaign today.
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"And that way station was while he was president, it was clear that Donald Trump was edging towards this place that he is now, this dark place," said Leonnig.
What he made clear is, "He was not the president for all Americans. Most presidents, in fact, all of them before Donald Trump, made an effort to unite the country. Even though they may have been elected by one party's faithful or another, they still tried to encourage and enable and kind of, in essence, charm the other side and say I am the president for all of you. Donald Trump made it clear during his presidency that he actually didn't like some of the people who didn't support him, and he rooted against them openly."
Now, she said, Trump has led the country to a place where someone with 91 felony charges, he's saying he'll look out for "some of its own citizens."
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Trump made it clear he didn't like a lot of Americans and rooted against them: reportwww.youtube.com
