MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said she fears Trump will put her in an internment camp if he is re-elected next election season.
In an interview with CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcey, published in Monday’s Reliable Sources newsletter, Maddow was asked about her concerns about being personally victimized by the Trump administration if she wants to win the 2024 presidential election.
“Trump and his allies are openly talking about weaponizing the government to seek revenge against his critics in the media and politics, and some of his extremist allies are even talking about imprisoning their fellow Americans,” Darcy said. You are one of his most notable critics on television. Are you worried that you might be a target?
Maddow responded: “I am concerned for the country as a whole if we put in power someone who openly confesses that he plans to build camps to house millions of people and ‘root out’ what he describes in inhumane terms as his ‘enemy.'” . from inside.’
‘Once again, history is useful here. He’s not joking when he says these things, and we’ve seen what happens when people take power proclaiming that kind of agenda.’
“I think there’s a little bit of complacency that Trump is only looking to go after individual people that he’s already singled out. Does he really believe that he plans to stop at well-known liberals?
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said she fears Trump will put her in an internment camp if he is re-elected next election season.
‘When Trump invokes the Insurrection Act to deploy the US military against civilians on his first day in office, do you think he then rescinds the order on the second day?’ Maddow said in response to Oliver Darcey’s question about how serious Trump and his allies are about seeking revenge against critics in the media and politics.
“It also seems pretty clear that some people in politics might think they’ll be on the safe side – that they might even benefit from it – if they side with Trump. Ask Mike Pence how that turns out in the end.
‘When Trump invokes the Insurrection Act to deploy the US military against civilians on his first day in office, do you think he then rescinds the order on the second day?
He continued: ‘In fact, what convinces you that these massive camps you are planning are only for immigrants? So, yes, I’m worried about myself, but only as much as I’m worried about all of us.
Maddow, a well-known supporter of Trump’s presidential campaign, said in August that she fears Trump would become a “president for life” – in other words, a dictator – if he wins a second term in the White House.
‘If every election is a new opportunity for him to go to prison, do you think he will allow us to have new elections?’ she said. “I mean, if that’s what’s at stake, if winning the election is his plan to stay out of prison, what will happen in those elections if he doesn’t win them?”
In a recent interview with television host Dr. Phil McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, Trump said that sometimes getting revenge takes time.
‘Well, revenge takes time, I’ll say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil. I have to be honest. “Sometimes it can be like that,” Trump said.
Maddow has criticized Trump since he was first elected in 2016, and her stunned reaction to his victory over Hillary Clinton was one of the defining media moments of that election.
