MSNBC's Bret Stephens Rips 'King Donald' & Sons Over Russia, Saudis: Don Jr. 'Happens to be an Idiot

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MSNBC’s Bret Stephens Rips ‘King Donald’ and Sons Over Russia, Saudi Arabia: Don Jr. ‘Happens to be an Idiot’


On MSNBC on Wednesday, news anchor Stephanie Ruhle discussed Donald Trump‘s AP interview with her guests, former Democrat senator Robert Torricelli and New York Times columnist and MSNBC contributor Bret Stephens, and on the topic of his son, Donald Trump Jr., the right-leaning Stephens unleashed.

Ruhle read from the AP’s extensive interview, in the portion regarding the Trump Tower meeting with Russians about Hillary Clinton.

From the AP transcript, the President said:

“My son’s a good young guy. He did what every other person in Congress would do if somebody came up to them, said, ‘Hey, I have information on your opponent.’ I don’t know of any politician. And I think I can speak for the people in this room that would have said, ‘Oh, gee, information on my opponent and it’s bad information?’ Name me a politician that would have turned that down. There is no such thing as that kind of a politician. So that’s what they heard. They heard it was about Hillary Clinton. They had a meeting or he had a meeting with some people. The meeting became about a different subject and they couldn’t get out of the meeting fast enough.”

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Ruhle then turned to Stephens, asking whether this would have any impact for Trump electorally. “If you ask people across America, they may agree with his nonsense lie,” she said.

That’s when Stephens got going, slamming Trump Jr., not to mention a ricochet shot at Jared Kushner and even managing to work in an Ann Coulter reference.

BRET STEPHENS: “Well no, I mean, that’s because we’ve sort of, we’ve defined deviancy down with the Trump administration that we’re used to the court of King Donald, his sons and courtiers and so on. By the way this is the same story with Saudi Arabia, when you put your son-in-law in charge of foreign policy with Saudi Arabia and then you catch moral laryngitis, as one my colleague Frank Bruni put it, you shouldn’t be surprised. You know something, Ann Coulter did give the president one terrific piece of advice back in 2016—”

STEPHANIE RUHLE: “Don’t hire your family.”

BRET STEPHENS: “You can’t hire your family for important jobs like these. Because your son happens to be, not a young guy, he happens to be an idiot who wanted to collude with a foreign government to subvert an American election.”

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Video at the link.

[EleanorR]

1. Democrat Senator?

[Marcuse]

2. Consider it an exhibition of poor grammar by someone who should know better.