Trump Fundraiser Headline: ‘HAUL OUT THE GUILLOTINE!’

Trump tried to camouflage his call for violence as victimization of himself. The email called beheading “the Sick Dream” of his political foes. Raw Story noted that the email also said, “THEY’RE REALLY COMING AFTER YOU!”

Acosta expressed concern that we’re all getting “a little too numb to this kind of rhetoric,” given that the email had been out for a couple of hours and “nobody’s really made a big deal” out of it yet. “Is he out of control?” Acosta asked.

“Trump has been out of control for a long time,” Republican guest Rina Shah said, “because what he's wanting to do is whack this whole notion of impartiality.” She was talking about such democratic institutions as our system of justice and our electoral systems. “Trump wants to whack those things away just because he's mentally unstable on that day and wants to talk about a guillotine and wants to say that they want to take me to the guillotine.”

Then Shah added, “Buddy, it was you that was fine with people doing that to your vice president.”

The other guest, Democrat Maria Cardona, called Trump’s language "outrageous" but "also not surprising." She added, “Now that he is a 34-times convicted felon, he can’t have a gun, so he can't shoot people on Fifth Avenue. So maybe now it's the guillotine that he's going to be using,” she snarked.

Acosta did not seem in the mood for snark. “To me, it’s just maybe we’ve gotten too numb to this,” he said. “There's a lot of talk about Trump amnesia. It's Trump numbness, maybe."

read more