MSNBC host Rachel Maddow told her viewers that President Trump might use the Department of Justice to investigate his political rivals in an attempt at reelection.
After encouraging her audience to look into the candidates on the issues, the MSNBC host warned her audience that the president might engage in “dystopian, over-the-top, road-to-tyranny” tactics to win the presidency.
“At this point in the Trump presidency, at this point in the news, what do you really think the odds are that President Trump and Attorney General William Barr won’t open up some kind of federal criminal investigation into whichever Democrat Trump ends up running against in the general election,” she asked her audience.
“Or if they can’t wait that long, if they’re too impatient, what do you think the odds are that the president and the attorney general will do something in the primary? Open up some kind of federal criminal investigation or find some other way to use the federal law enforcement apparatus against whichever Democrat Trump least wants to run against in the general.”
Maddow said that America “supposedly learned our lesson” following the Watergate scandal which surrounded the Nixon presidency in the early 1970s. However, she asserted that it’s a plausible theory for Trump to “target his political opponents” and “undermine his opponent” in the 2020 election.
