Al Sharpton and frequent guest Donny Deutsch expressed fears Friday that Donald Trump would place them on an enemy’s “list” if he was elected president again, suggesting imprisonment or worse awaited them.Deutsch, known for his excitable anti-Trump screeds on “Morning Joe,” said Trump would put enemies in jail and there would be no free media in another Trump administration, turning suddenly to Sharpton and asking, “Are you worried, going forward, that you’re on a list if Donald Trump is elected?
Yes or no?”“I’m convinced I’ll be on a list,” Sharpton said, with Deutsch chiming in “I am too!”“And think about that!” Deutsch said. “This is the United States of America, and people in the media, like the Rev, have to be concerned that they may be on a list.
I have people saying to me, Donny are you worried? This is America! And yet people will still give permission to vote for Donald Trump.
What’s wrong with us?!”MSNBC’s John Heilemann appeared amused at Deutsch’s diatribe, laughing, “Now that we know you’re on the list, you obviously have to keep yourself off that list.”Trump was in the White House from 2017 to 2021, where he frequently ripped into his critics on social media and elsewhere, but he did not jail any media or political foes.Deutsch earlier in the segment expressed shock that Trump had any supporters, wondering if they simply didn’t care their freedoms would vanish under another Trump presidency.“You know, as we all talk to a lot of people who vote for Trump, and I say to them, I still can’t figure out, do they not believe it, or do they not care?” he asked.
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