On MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” host Nicolle Wallace and her guests discussed the administration’s bizarre and disturbing (not to mention politically inept) decisions to go after aid to Puerto Rico, funding for the Special Olympics, and endorsement of the conclusion that the courts should invalidate the entirety of Obamacare.
The panel observed that, in light of the relatively good news this week from Attorney General Bill Barr saying that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will not bring a charge of conspiring with the Russian government against anyone in President Donald Trump’s orbit, these moves look particularly ill-timed and self-destructive. Bloomberg editor Tim O’Brien noted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is well-suited to weaponize these issues against Republicans. Continue reading “‘Oh my god! My brain doesn’t go that dark!’: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace loses when her guest guesses the motives behind Trump’s ‘politics of cruelty’”