Matthews: Trump Is Like Idi Amin Playing with Crayons, Possibly Has Dementia
By Curtis Houck | August 30, 2019 1:39 PM EDT
Thursday’s Hardball not only featured A-block panelists and MSNBC host Chris Matthews defending former FBI Director James Comey for violating DOJ policy to leak to the media, but Matthews floated to his B-block that possibility President Donald Trump could be suffering from dementia.
Matthews also compared Trump to Idi Amin, Julius Caesar, and Benito Mussolini, who’s like “an eight-year-old with crayons†who must be stopped, so that’s quite a stretch from dementia to a brutal, strategic dictator.
Right off the bat, Matthews was psyched to tease the segment (even though the “limited cognitive ability†line came from an anonymous source describing Mattis’s thinking in The Atlantic):
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