This week’s Liberal Media Scream features a new escalation of Trump Derangement Syndrome in the press over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots and former President Donald Trump.
NBC contributor Eddie Glaude Jr. used his appearance on Meet The Press to claim after just one House hearing for the Jan. 6 special panel that Attorney General Merrick Garland can either indict Trump or watch the American justice system crumble.
Glaude, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, said on the show that “if you don’t indict him, there is the end of the rule of law.”
From Sunday’s Meet the Press:
EDDIE GLAUDE JR.: The fact is that if we know that he [Trump] needs to be indicted or he’s broken the law in some way, but there’s a threat of violence if you indict him, and if you don’t indict him —
CHUCK TODD: Isn’t there a threat of violence?
GLAUDE: “If you don’t indict him, there is the end of the rule of law. So it’s the tragic choice that Merrick Garland faces, I think.”
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “A Hobson’s choice? Glaude has already decided Trump is guilty of something bad and so must be charged. The choice is between two bad outcomes: Violence from his supporters or an end of the rule of law if he’s not charged. Of course, there’s a third option: Allow the legal process to play out without political commentators like Glaude weighing in early to try to influence the outcome.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS
