Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes predicted that Donald Trump will continue escalating his inflammatory rhetoric ahead of at least three criminal trials and the 2024 presidential election.
“The level of his rhetoric seems to be intensifying against prosecutors, judges, perhaps even jurors here,” Sykes said on MSNBC Thursday. “And I think the people need to understand, you know, that this may sound like … the same old playbook. But he does seem to be ramping it up at exactly the moment when you would think that calmer heads would say, hey, we need to lower the temperature because this is dangerous.”
“In Donald Trump’s mind, an atmosphere of fear, chaos and violence actually works for him, he thinks,” Sykes added. “He looks at that and he goes yeah, I can I can work with this. This will benefit me.”