Progressive political pundit Michael Moore called Trump voters “legal terrorists” in an interview with Rolling Stone published over the weekend.
The Michigan native said he wants people from areas like he is from to “think about the damage they could do by being a legal terrorist on November 8th.”
“Legally, you have a right to vote on November 8th. You can go in there and even though you’re not necessarily in favor of Trump and you don’t like him that much and you know he’s a little crazy, you also know he’s going to blow up the system,” Moore said. “The system that took your job and house away from you. You get to get back at the system now and blow it up and this is the only day you can do it legally … He’s going to get a lot of votes from people who actually just want to sit back and watch the thing blow up.”
He also compared Trump to a pedophile who should be isolated from society, and said that while he’s not sure if he’s a sociopath or a psychopath, “he’s not a well person and he needs help.”
“And once you realize that he has a mental illness, at that point, if you’re a human being with a soul and a conscience, you want him to get help,” he said. “At the same time, you have to protect the population from him like you do with a pedophile. A pedophile doesn’t need to be in prison; they’re sick. They have to be separated from us so they don’t hurt children. But you have to treat it that way.”
Moore is promoting his new film “TrumpLand” because, just like the Republican nominee, he doesn’t trust the polls and thinks Trump could still win.
“I could just tell on the streets that there’s no enthusiasm [for Hillary Clinton] whatsoever,” he said.
Moore lamented that primary voters didn’t chose Clinton over Bernie Sanders’ socialist revolution, but said with some hesitancy that he is now supporting the Democratic party nominee because “it’s really what’s best for the country at this point.”
“It’s no longer just Donald J. Trump on the ballot. Misogyny is on the ballot. Racism is on the ballot. White privilege and elitism are on the ballot. It’s not just about defeating Trump,” he said.
Moore said he’s “not opposed” to the Federal Bureau of Investigation looking into Trump like they have Clinton, and suggested that the Republican presidential nominee’s rhetoric about the outcome of the election might incite violence by his “rabid followers.”
“I’m not opposed to the FBI stopping by Trump Tower to ask him a few questions, just to see where he’s going with this,” he said.
