It might be hard to definitively say what the number one example of Trump Derangement Syndrome is, but MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart’s Thursday meltdown on Chris Jansing Reports that alleged President Trump and his administration are shredding the constitution with federal law enforcement operations in Memphis, Tennessee, is certainly a top contender. What made Capehart’s descent into madness more noteworthy is that back on August 22, in his role as a PBS contributor, Capehart wondered why Trump and Republican governors were sending the National Guard to Washington, D.C. when Memphis’s crime problem is much worse.
Alluding to something Trump advisor Stephen Miller had said, Jansing began by wondering, “So, Jonathan, it's not just that they're sending people in where they've been told they aren't wanted or needed, but what do you make of the use of the word “unleashed?”
Capehart wasted no time with his bad faith arguments, “Yeah, I—‘unleashed’ and also the other word, I think it was Secretary Hegseth who said ‘the handcuffs are off.’ You know what the handcuffs are, Chris? It’s called the Constitution. It’s called due process. It’s called the presumption of innocence, and so when you have the Deputy White House Chief of Staff tell law enforcement officers that they are, quote, ‘unleashed,’ unleashed to do what?”
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