Any call for President Trump or Republicans to comment on the lunatic Coast Guard officer arrested last week should be seen for what it is: an attempt to force the White House and the GOP to own this guy, and therefore his white supremacist ideology, as an issue.

Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the cable show where five different people take turns saying the exact same thing for three hours, an on-screen graphic blared, “TRUMP SILENT ON PLOT TO KILL CRITICS.”