Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough had a tense exchange with guest Donny Deutsch over Trump's pardons for January 6 defendants. The discussion began with Ali Vitali noting this pardon as one of Trump's immediate post-inauguration actions. Deutsch argued that Trump has effectively co-opted the essence of America, while Brzezinski countered that this involves leveraging families of hostages for political gain. Scarborough emphasized Trump's consistent messaging and how such tactics distract from troubling political behaviors, likening them to historical 'bread and circuses' used to entertain and manipulate the populace.
But I just want to add one thing to that, we can say that to ourselves, [but Trump] has co-opted America's heartbeat.
If America's heartbeat is to have hostage families standing behind him, that marketing visual is quite something.
People will absorb it because he gives them what they want in other places.
He actually told them. Told them again. He told them what he was going to do.
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