The liberal media continues their pathetic refrain that Trump supporters belong to a cult, a particularly popular claim on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Contributor and National Affairs analyst John Heilemann took it a step further on the August 16 edition of the political roundtable, claiming that there was just about nothing that Trump could do that would get his supporters to change their minds about him, including murdering their own family.
That audacious claim was made during a segment ripping into Trump supporters for their loyalty to the President, amidst the Russia collusion investigation. A new Quinnipiac poll found that 19 percent of the GOP said it would be acceptable for a candidate to get opposition research on a opponent from a hostile foreign power. Despite the fact that the majority, 79% of Republicans condemned this hypothetical action, the Morning Joe panel had a field day with the results, saying they were either indicative of Trump supporters’ ludicrous loyalty or their hostility to the media questioning their support for the President.
Calling the results “appalling,” Heilemann gushed that he would be real interested to hear if his supporters also justified murder:
You used the example, the bad example, of like what would be the core that would say it was ok for Donald Trump to dissolve media institutions because media institutions are super unpopular. I would like a pollster to ask this question: How many people in the Republican Party think that it would be ok for Donald Trump to dissolve their own grandparents?
I’m virtually certain that if it was a Donald Trump-related question you’d get like 10 percent that would be like ‘Donald Trump has the power to do whatever he wants–including kill my [grand] parents.’
As the panel stared at Heilemann in shock, he tried to walk back his statement a bit, saying it was just an example of how much his supporters hated the media. “I’m being hyperbolic. Don’t look so appalled,” he scolded. “I think it's kind of a test. There are certain things, there are some number of people who to Noah [Rothman]’s point that they just hear the question as ‘the media is trying to test my loyalty to Donald Trump.’ And if it’s a question whether Trump has the authority to do anything, they will say yes no matter what that thing is,” Heilemann clarified. “That is where I was trying to get to.”
Trying to lighten the mood, fellow panelist Willie Geist cracked, “Wow, this show got dark real fast!”
