Trump looks and sounds terrible, and crazy, in MTP interview airing Sunday. Talks about self-pardon

[highplainsdem]

Just ran across this via a Newser headline I saw while I was signing out of one of my email accounts. Video from NBC News below the excerpt.

https://www.newser.com/story/340159/donald-trump-on-the-idea-of-pardoning-himself-very-unlikely.html

In an interview Thursday with Meet the Press that will air in full Sunday, former President Trump addressed the idea of pardoning himself should he be convicted of any crimes. Asked whether he would pardon himself were he to be re-elected in 2024, Trump gave a quite lengthy answer (watch it in full in the gallery) that can essentially be boiled down to the fact that in his final days as president, he says he was told by lawyers and others that he could pardon himself, and he told them in no uncertain terms that he would not. "I said the last thing I'd ever do is give myself a pardon," he says at one point, then "I said I would never give myself a pardon." As CNN notes, a presidential self-pardon has not yet been legally tested. And as USA Today notes, a presidential pardon would not be applicable in the state cases Trump faces, just the federal ones.

Trump also, of course, bemoaned the "thugs, horrible people, fascists, Marxists, sick people" and "sick lunatics" who, he said, are after him for purely political reasons. Had he pardoned himself before leaving office, he said, he wouldn't be facing "these fake charges, these Biden indictments. They're all Biden indictments, political. They indicted, they want to arrest, their political opponents. Only third-world countries do that, banana republics."

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. I think it reprehensible to air the reality-inverted gibberish from this monster, BUT

it's what the press did to Joe McCarthy, and by throwing it out there for public opinion to masticate and digest, it may well not stand the light of day. A little sunshine is a great disinfectant as the saying goes.

[emulatorloo]

7. And I think it is going to provide a lot of evidence for SC Jack Smith to use in his cases.

[The Blue Flower]

2. "They indicted, they want to arrest, their political opponents. Only third-world countries do that"

Hasn't he been saying that's exactly what he'd do if re-elected?

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[Ocelot II]

12. Except for Hillary, of course. "Lock her up"?

[W_HAMILTON]

45. Third world countries also let their corrupt political leaders go unpunished.

His point?

[cilla4progress]

3. He's so clearly deranged

I'm torn on whether to air shit like this or not....

[emulatorloo]

8. Between this and the Megyn Kelly one, prosecutors are gonna get a lot of video evidence to

show to the juries at Trump’s trials. He keeps incriminating himself. I personally won’t watch it, but will tune in to Lawrence O’Donnell’s show to see his legal panel analyze it.

[Cha]

56. ++++++

I Won't even watch that clip in the OP or read it.. I've had enough.

So could you please give a little synopsis of what Hoovertrump does to incriminate himseof?

Mahalo!

[CrispyQ]

5. I guess if this is what Welker wants for her first show, then have at it.

Bad choice, IMO, & sick of the MSM, even the supposed liberal station, keeping this prick front & center. How about an interview with Biden & his accomplishments? Or VP Harris or prosecutor Willis? Why this festering asshole?

[Walleye]

15. I think because it's about ratings not journalism

[CrispyQ]

17. We are the Ferengi, aren't we? -nt

[Walleye]

18. Yes we must obey the laws of acquisition

[cilla4progress]

16. This

...

[Walleye]

6. "Mr President"?We only have one president at the time, please Mr. Trump is the correct title

You can tell by that one thing she is in enthralled, like all the rest of them

[gratuitous]

27. I saw a couple of clips and noticed that obsequiousness right away

Is it fair to judge the new Welker-hosted Meet the Press based on her choice of first guest and the groveling she does while listening to the same tired nonsense Donald Trump has been spewing for years? Some say no. Folks with more than two brain cells to rub together are firmly in the "yes" camp.

[Walleye]

29. obsequiousness, That was the word I was looking for. Nauseating

[Fiendish Thingy]

33. Perhaps you've forgotten all former presidents are customarily addressed by their title. Nt

[Walleye]

37. No I haven't forgotten, they are addressed as President so-and-so, not Mr. President

Although I’m sure they call him Mr. President around the golf club.

[highplainsdem]

39. See the end of this 2020 NPR interview with Barack Obama:

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/16/934584373/transcript-nprs-full-interview-with-former-president-barack-obama

Mr. President, thank you so much for speaking with us.

It was great to talk to you. Thank you so much.

I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

43. Then a more appropriate title

for Slobby would be, "President Putin."

[MorbidButterflyTat]

42. I bet that was a requirement by Slobby

for her to get the interview.

"You must call me 'President' repeatedly. You must pretend to ask hard hitting questions but really just give me opportunities to whine. You must wear 2 inch skirt with your crotch facing me at all times. No panties allowed."

Megan Kelly looked like she was gonna do a Sharon Stone imitation and flash that pig with her hooha.

[Walleye]

54. I wonder if she would dress like that when interviewing President Biden

[Botany]

9. I have noticed in that clip and the clip of the interview w/Megyn Kelly not only did he admit .....

... to more crimes but when he is lying he does a really weird semi clapping motion with his
hands and he looks like the crazy person you do not want to talk to you.

[highplainsdem]

13. "He looks like the crazy person you do not want to talk to you." Exactly.

Don't think I've ever seen him look worse in an interview.

[True Blue American]

22. Crazy Uncle In The Attic.

[OAITW r.2.0]

14. He's a well known air accordionist.

[CrispyQ]

19. OMG, laughing so hard.

Do kids today even know what an accordion is?

[Botany]

21. Or he is doing his "clapping monkey" act.

[keep_left]

47. "Trump's 'jazz hands' "...

...I believe that was the way I first saw it described at DU. The "air accordion" is also popular.

[robbob]

48. If you google "Trump playing accordion"

You will be well rewarded with some hilarious clips…

[keep_left]

49. Thanks, will check that out!

[Scrivener7]

10. If he says he won't, that means he will.

[Ocelot II]

11. He *is* terrible and crazy.

[True Blue American]

20. Goodbye MTP

And Kristen Welker! Such a tawdry interview.

[underpants]

23. Exactly the same answer he gave in his interview with Megyn Kelly

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218273713

[highplainsdem]

24. ???? None of the clips there refer to a self-pardon.

[underpants]

30. Here you go

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=3VBm1LJ8j8qLp6JTs_8J2A

[robbob]

31. How do you pardon yourself for crimes you haven't yet been charged with?

A kind of “get out of jail free” card? Ridiculous. And a card you can pull again and again for each new crime you are charged with? What a buffoon, and the interviewer sits and nods and doesn’t even think/dare to ask the first question that instantly popped into my mind; how can you issue a pardon for future charges?

[MorbidButterflyTat]

44. "Because I could do it.

The presidential self pardon act means I can do whatever I want."

[highplainsdem]

32. That clip is from the Meet The Press interview, as you'll see from the

background and the Meet The Press and NBC News logos in the upper right corner.

[underpants]

35. MTP coverage has swallowed up the Megyn Kelly interview

I can’t find it but he did give exactly the same answer.

[highplainsdem]

36. Okay. I'm sure his lawyers have told him what he should say.

[usonian]

25. Same old Donald

[LuckyCharms]

51. .

[usonian]

53. Thank you!

Great artwork deserves recognition. And so does mine.

Now, if I could just get a beer. 🍺

[mopinko]

26. i hope they have a good editor who does a full confession cut.

they best not have left the admission of any crime on the cutting room floor.

[malaise]

28. sTFU

Slobby!
That is all

[pwb]

34. I can't wait to not watch trump say

the same thing he has said 1000 times.

[Grins]

38. I would have asked him...

"If elected president, would you pardon Hunter Biden so as to, as Gerald Ford said," (to restore) tranquility to...this nation?"

Just to watch him squirm!

[ZonkerHarris]

40. This is the clip NBC and Kristen Welker thought would make people want to watch MTP again?

Really?
Idiots.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

41. WTF

Oh will you pardon yourself?

Why is this considered normal?

[GoCubsGo]

46. Cornered Rat is trying to taint the jury pool every way he can.

Hard to say how much of this is "crazy," and how much of it is sheer panic from seeing the walls closing in on him.

[LuckyCharms]

50. He looks like dogshit wrapped in cat shit.

The stress is getting to him.

Can't wait to see what he looks like in a few months.

He doesn't need a mask for Halloween.

[Yavin4]

52. You know what prosecutors will call this interview?

Completely frictionless discovery.

[TexasBushwhacker]

55. Facists AND Marxists?

Something tells me he doesn't know what those words mean.

[Cha]

57. FUCK HOOVERtrump

[scipan]

58. So, a president with the non-existent ethics of a Trump

could, before he leaves office, murder all the people he wants revenge for, then pardon himself, and skip off to maraloco to live happily ever after??

I don't think a rational supreme Court would go for it. There's a long standing, since before the Constitution was written, principle that one can't be his/her own judge.