Peak Hysteria: Joy Reid Imagines Federal Marshals Storming The White House To Arrest Trump
Remember the phrase “jumping the shark?” There should be a similar phrase for when the media launches into such ridiculous hysterics that they teeter over the edge of bias and into all-out lunacy.
Take MSNBC’s Joy Reid, for example, who over the weekend went so far down the proverbial rabbit hole that she began daydreaming – on air, I might add – about a scenario in which the White House is stormed by federal agents trying to arrest a resisting President Trump for his imaginary crimes.
Here’s the exchange, via Real Clear Politics:
"Let's say that Donald Trump decides he doesn't want to give an interview with Mueller, but Mueller says 'Oh, but you will.' And he's subpoenaed to [be] interview[ed] [by] Robert Mueller. And Donald Trump simply says, 'I don't recognize that subpoena.' This is a president whose behavior is different as president of the United States. He doesn't follow convention. Who would force him to comply with the subpoena ordering him to do an interview with Robert Mueller?" Reid asked.
"It would be a federal court judge," former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said.
"How would they enforce it?" she asked.
"Normally, a person who refuses to testify before a grand jury winds up being incarcerated for the time period of the grand jury which can be up to 18 months," Akerman said. "So, one way to enforce it is to have Donald Trump taken by the federal marshals and put into federal prison until he testifies."
"What if he refuses to open the White House door?" Reid asked, seriously. "What if he fires any Secret Service agent who would allow the federal marshals in? What if Donald Trump simply decides I don't have to follow the law? 'I refuse to be held under the law. No marshal can get into this White House and any Secret Service agent who defies me is fired.'"
"Well, at some point he is going to have to come out of the White House," Akerman answered. "At some point, he is going to have to leave and the U.S. Marshals will be directed to take him into custody, bring him before a federal district court judge. He'll be basically told that either he goes in and he testifies or he takes the Fifth Amendment. If he takes the Fifth Amendment, there's not a problem.
“If he refuses to answer on the grounds that a truthful answer would tend to incriminate him he has the right to do that. If he does that, there's no contempt. If he doesn't do that, he can be directed to go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. End of story."
This is a conversation that actually went down on a major news network.
About a sitting president who has thus far not been charged with any crime, and who Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly maintained is not a criminal target of his investigation.
With crazy nonsense like that, it’s no wonder Russian trolls focused on disrupting America’s political landscape re-tweeted Reid more than any other pundit during the 2016 election.