The Atlantic staff writer and podcaster David Frum brought out his tinfoil hat on Friday when he joined MS NOW’s Deadline: White House when he suggested that President Trump could arrest people to prevent them from voting in next year’s midterms. Of course, guest host Ali Velshi decided to echo those conspiracy theories instead of pushing back on them, while Prof. Basil Smikle warned Trump will try to find a way to “nationalize voter suppression.”
Frum declared that Trump “will do anything” to win and wondered, “One of the things that the Supreme Court has authorized is the brief detention of American citizens to check that they are indeed American citizens, brief detention. How brief is brief? Can you arrest them at 3:00 in the afternoon and hold them ’til after the polls close? Is that brief?
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