Progressive firebrand Mehdi Hasan angered many Republicans during the 2020 summer when he described former President Donald Trump as a “fascist.” Hasan, now an MSNBC host, revisited that subject over the weekend on his Sunday-night program, saying that he now believes his anti-Trump statements of the past might have been an “understatement.”
Hasan, during what he describes as one of his “one-minute rants,” recalled that when he was sitting in for MSNBC’s Chris Hayes last year, he “used the F word in relation to Donald Trump.”
“A lot of people, even some on the left, lost their minds,” Hasan told viewers. “I was accused of hyperbole and exaggeration, fear-mongering.”
The MSNBC host went on to explain why, if anything, he “understated” how dangerous Trump is. Continue reading.