MS Now host Jonathan Capehart did not appreciate the idea that certain Democratic politicians making a video urging the military to disobey President Trump was a problem. During PBS News Hour’s Friday weekly news recap, Capehart condemned the American Enterprise Institute’s Matthew Continetti for declaring that “both sides” disgraced themselves with the video because, in his mind, only President Trump’s reaction to it was worth discussing.
Host Amna Nawaz began with Continetti, “I want to ask for your response to the video, but also to put to you that Senator Slotkin, who's in that video, said she and other members of the video have gotten close to 1,000 threats since it was posted. Congressman Crow posted some of the threats he's been receiving calling for his family to be killed. It's chilling stuff. But how dangerous is the president's rhetoric on this?”
Continetti condemned everyone involved, “I think a lot of the rhetoric has been very dangerous. I think both sides here have been not covering themselves in glory. On the one hand you're calling the president a fascist, a dictator in training, someone who's going to issue unlawful orders, even though they can't name a single unlawful order that the president has given. And then, of course, you have the president himself calling this sedition, treason, punishable by death.”
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. steve malzberg
