Mehdi Hassan
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No, I mean, I would take Richard Nixon a hundred times over right now.
Richard Nixon on his worst day is better than Donald Trump on his best day when it comes to criminality and corruption, in my view.
And in terms of leading, I actually think Richard Nixon cared about America, cared about in his own weird way.
broke as many laws as he wanted to do it.
There's no doubt in my mind that Richard Nixon cared about America, cared about public service, was a governor, was a vice president, was a president.
This guy from WWE and Home Alone 2 is bent on enriching himself and his friends and his allies.
The January 6th insurrection is he set up a slush fund to pay them out.
Congress, for the first time ever, to take back what I just said, the one thing they got a spine for was to say, oh, no, we can't sign off on this.
This is too far even for us as your sycophants.
And I don't know if you saw on Sunday, he didn't meet the press and he went nuts.
orange-faced, caked in makeup, screaming at Kristen Welker, the black female interviewer, simply because she asked him about the slush fund, asked him about the 2020 election, which he still believes is rigged.
He went nuts and he said, thank you, darling, and ended the interview.
Again, imagine if a female president or female politician did that.
Can you imagine?
Oh, too emotional, too this.
There's no scenario in which you can heal the country.
This is the man who came to office in 2017 talking about American carnage.
He has a very dark, dystopian view for the country because he's a very dark, dystopian person.
And when he won last year, the first thing I did was look at that calendar and say, wow.
Donald Trump is going to be president during the 250th birthday.