some would say it was reminiscent of the calls he put out before january 6th. echoes were strongly there. you saw, you know, the police barricades were laid out throughout new york city. we saw those, the footage. i saw it here in the city. you had the police department told its officers to go out in dress blues and project some sense of force. you then had trump yesterday, and lemire was talking about this in the 6:00 a.m. hour or the 5:00 a.m. hour, you eluded to it, i don t know how far we go with it, but the stuff trump said yesterday over the course of the day, the images he put forward, the language he used, the attack, the constant attacks all week trying to tie bragg to george soros, an anti-semitic dog whistle, the references to bragg as an animal, as someone who was human scum, doing the work of the devil. by the way, john, here we go. by the way, if this isn t fascist type language and
charlottesville. you were fighting a confederate statue of robert e. lee, head of the confederate army, trying to keep black people enslaved, and they were attacking jews there. the coupling of black and jewish attacks, this anti-semitism and making blacks animals, as in the case of donald trump calling alvin bragg that, is rooted in the whole bigotry and the whole racist, anti-semitic coupling that we ve had to fight in this country. i think that they are really expressing out loud, saying out loud, no dog whistle here, they re saying it out loud, what has been at the root of american racism. i think it s outrageous. now, they re backed up by chairmans of committees that s calling this man in to say, give us your evidence, like he is not a real prosecutor. unbelievable. the soros clips were from your
that. the question is, why do these folks think it ll work? i think they have evidence that it has worked. we have to understand that at its core. i think that it has worked, and i think that we need to understand it. but i go back to joe s point. when you talk about when you refored to ferred to soros, i b was the 1920s or 30s, joe, where they had these pamphlets, the international jew. absolutely. that s what they re making soros. right. they re saying this international jew is financing this animal who condition think for himself. they don t have to mean he is an animal. just send word to him. it dehumantizes blacks in coupling that together. if bragg was taking orders from soros, why didn t he take them when he wouldn t go through with the prosecution a year ago when two assistant d.a. s resigned
he s never communicated with soros before. yet, they re saying that this black man is an international jewish banker, their trope, is his master. that soros is bragg s master, despite the fact that i never met or talked to each other. joe, it is so brilliant. it s kind of evil brilliant, that they ve managed to do an attack, to defend donald trump, that combines both anti-black racism and anti-semitism at the same time. it is actually kind of white supremacist genius. mehdi hasan, thank you. that s so disturbing. so disturbing. the mehdi hasan show, mondays at 8:00 a.m. on msnbc and tuesdays on peacock. new book. great book. the art of debating, persuading and public speaking is out now. thank you very much for coming on. new york times best seller.
move them to a box of obstruction. now, you can t talk about pence and biden. you re talki about a singular thing that could really unravel donald trump for all time, with a federal indictment of obstruction with the intent to obstruct and go around the law. i think that s why we re seeing these midnight rants from him that he is posting. because he is hearing, as i said, these footsteps coming closer. those midnight demons are saying to him, they re coming to get ya, donald. the manhattan elite that you always felt looked down on you and your dad are laughing at you. they re on their way. the only way he can express it is to go using his anti-semitic, racist ways of jumping out at bragg and taking shots at soros. but the real, core problem is he feels trapped and caught. it may not be in manhattan, but he knows that they re coming to