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During a rare moment of clarity on Thursday’s The Beat, MSNBC host Ari Melber seemed to realize the contradictory nature of the liberal media’s dueling hyperbolic narratives against President Trump. “Is he Darth Vader or is he like the worst Stormtrooper,” Melber wondered. The question came while his guests were arguing about whether Trump was an all-controlling dictator or hopelessly incompetent.
The Senate was taking a break during their final day to ask questions of the Democratic House impeachment managers and Trump’s legal team, when Melber looked to Art of the Deal co-author Tony Schwartz for his insight and teed him up to comment on how “king-like” Trump was being.
“Yeah, king-like, dictator-like, autocrat-like. You know, it's no different really than the kind of situation that Putin has or Kim Jong-Un has, or any other autocratic leader,” Schwartz proclaimed.
Schwartz cranked the crazy up to 11 and insisted that the lives of the people Trump “hates most” were at risk if he was reelected. And not only their lives, but shows and networks like MSNBC could go away.
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