MSNBC’s John Heilemann on Trump sending federal police into Portland: a “trial run” for using “force” to “steal this election”
MSNBC political analyst John Heilemann claimed on Tuesday that President Trump's deployment of federal agents into Portland was a "trial run" for what is to come beyond the 2020 election. See Also: "The View' Meghan McCain scolds Joy Behar for claiming Republicans don't care about education: 'Aggressive and incendiary' The Department of Homeland Security has been under fire in recent days after footage from the protests and riots in Portland show hostile confrontations with federal agents, including a video showing them making arrests in unmarked vans. Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Heilemann declared the use of such militarized agents on the ground "authoritarianism." "These are the kinds of things we have seen in tyrannical, authoritarian regimes in third-world countries throughout the 20th- second half of the 20th century," Heilemann explained. "This is not a mystery what's going on ...