Media floats theory Trump won't leave office if defeated in November; Fox News contributor Karl Rove reacts.
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and out tonight. The
democratic russian hope stirs the same characters back
in full force, spreading new
in full force, spreading new
election conspiracy theories
about the president, of course,
never wanting to leave office.
We start with Congressman Jim
Clyburn South Carolina.
His comments on TMZ
team Z live is actually an
awesome show.
Take a look,
I think its real.
The facts are very clear.
He says he is on the phone,
seven or eight times with Putin.
Recently
nobody knows what he is talking
about.
Is he getting instructions from
Putin?
This guy really does not plan to
go quietly if he is not
reelected and if he is
reelected, I dont think he
would plan to go quietly.
This guy in a sense installed
himself under whatever he can
use to be president for life,
never going to leave
office until they pull him out,
and also did you know, hes a
Nazi, and these are stormtroopers
he is sending in and it is like
Mussolini and a fascist
that was bad.
The mob the media keep echoing
the same bizarre and unfounded
claims.
This is all one big conspiracy,
theory, well cult, if you will
speak of, is going to be a split
screen on January 20th, two thousand and twenty one.
If Joe Biden is now going to be
the 46th president of the
United States, you will have him
being inaugurated and watching
police and armed forces trying
to pull Donald Trump out of the
White House.
I cannot wait for that.
In this scenario, your
painting president Trump losing
by a narrow margin and then
refuses to leave office. What
does that scenario? Look like
this is how democracies work,
where leaders try to change
elections or wield their power
in a way to hold onto power.
Longer,
I think, were looking at
potentially a trial run for a
kind of genuine attempt, through
intimidation and potentially
through force, to try to steal
the selection.
Okay, nazis, fascism,
not going to leave office
kind of like the russian hoax in
the same cast of characters,
deputy chief of staff,
Karl Rove,
all right. That sounds to me
like desperation, but they got
away with it with Russia and
Ukraine. Why not try again
yeah
whats interesting to me is two
of these were journalists,
April Ryan and John Heilman, and
both of them without a shred of
evidence.
Think about this. The idea that
the president is going to
somehow if he loses the
election barricaded himself in
the West Wing, assumes that there
is a conspiracy afoot now, so
that the people who work in the
West Wing like Larry, Kudlow,
the national economic director
or the White House, legal counsel
or mark meadows. They are all in
on this because you cant
barricade yourself in the
White House all by yourself, so
they are assuming that may be.
The secretary of Defense is
involved in this.
After all this its going to be
a military takeover,
I mean this is so ridiculous
and so absurd that these people
ought to be ashamed of
themselves.
I mean talk about stirring up
emotion and fearmongering
Jim Clyburn im terribly
disappointed,
Heres a guy who, without a
shred of evidence
just because he believes that
hes going to say it and says
the most horrific things about
his political opponent.
I get that he doesnt like him.
He is from the opposite party,
but have we really got into the
point where hes, the third
ranking Democrat in the house
go out there and say the most
extraordinarily bizarre things
in the media? Just simply sits
there and says you may be
right.
After all, several members of
our club of a fellow
journalist, they say the same
thing
hes going to barricade himself.
We are going to wake up twenty years
from now and he will have been
president for life.
You said they should
be ashamed.
The same cast of characters in
the media. This is what theyve
done for three years,
all right.
Ninety days out state of the race.
First of all, I wrote a piece
about this tomorrow in
the Wall Street Journal.
You have to admire the tactical
agility of the campaign.
Theyve been maneuvering in this
era of coronavirus,
theyve kept him in the
basement, kept him out of the
spotlight and theyve been doing
interesting. Things
were running with Texas, they
put up tv ads
were going to Ohio and we are
going to have a massive campaign
and announcing our first hires.
They are hiring two people.
This is just you know: the
media immediately jump up and
say: Ohio is in play and Texas is
in play because Biden is making
a move.
You have to take off your hat
and say these people know how to
lay it out there and manipulate
the media to follow their
story line,
but strategically. I wonder if
they are as smart as they are
tactically,
I dont think so, because their
strategy is Biden benefits most
when he is seen as the normal
alternative. The traditional
democrat alternative to the
incumbent, and instead of letting
him be that they are pushing him
hard to the left. With his
speeches, his rhetoric
im going to end shareholder
capitalism, transform the
economy, radical revolutionary
changes,
all these words coming out of
his mouth and it causes. I
think, cumulatively, over the
next couple of months, if the
Trump campaign of tax it head on
and contrast, this could be
Michael Dukakis, one thousand nine hundred and eighty eight all over
again.
Interestingly enough, I was
taking our colleague,
Dana Perino Interview, Joe Biden
yesterday, and she said Joe has
always been a moderate, and that
is always what will be.
Obviously, she is not in sync,
with the high command the
rest of the high command of the
Biden campaign, which says lets
just make them the most
progressive president in
history
thats. What he himself said
lets make him that, in his
policy, positions and views,
police have become
the enemy and trillions
committed to the new green deal.
Real quick
in the future im going to
have this board ready for use
because, rather than having to
say it, I will just pull it up.
Come on man
come on. Man
come on, man.
Are you on drugs?
Are you a junkie?
Come on
come on, man
come on man.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-06.