Chuck Todd: It’s a ‘failure of imagination’ to think Trump can’t lose GOP primary



Former President Donald Trump’s campaign may be cashing in on the mug shot released after his booking on Thursday night, but it is a visual representation of the four indictments and 91 felony counts against him — and the political trouble they may represent, says Meet the Press Moderator Chuck Todd.

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  1. It's a failure of imagination to view Chuck Todd as a journalist or talk show host. It's never going to happen. He loves his job as a DNC Schill too much. Im old enough to remember when Meet The Press was a show of character, news and value but that was well before Chuck Todd. I guess he didn't grow up watching the show like I did.

  2. Maybe Trump will drop out so he can "spend time with family"???????????????????????????

  3. Vivek is a true renaissance man! Smartest candidate in the field on both sides. Best resume of any candidate in 20 years. Midwest middle class roots, Catholic high school, Harvard science undergrad, Yale Law School, Wall Street experience, Biotech CEO, author, family man.

  4. If DJT gets back in there, you can bet that he will pull a move just like his old buddy Vlad did in Russia and eliminate term limits for a president before 2027.

  5. Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy – 38 years old? Is that all? Vivek? I will not hold your youthfulness against you. But you idiocy is another matter. Trump was not the best President between January 2017 to January 2021. Let alone the 21st Century. For that for years the position was as vacant as the occupier.

  6. Republicans always want to tell everyone how great a President Trump was … but they never want to tell you why.

    I wonder why…..🤔

  7. Todd, this is why nobody watches you. You've never been right about anything in your life. Truth isn't what you want it to be.

  8. I think the most damning bit of an early t rial for Trump is him taking the stand only to opposing the fifth amendment. Over and over again. I think because he's no technically a co-defendant, he can summoned as a witness. And then you can put this side by side with him saying that he looks forward to be on the stand, he could win the case in five minutes.

  9. Insurrectionist Trump has betrayed his oath to the Constitution. Amendment 14.3 makes it clear. He’s a traitor and will be disqualified.

  10. Trump supporters are not going to pay any attention or give any respect to these trials, they've stuck with him this far they're not about to weaken their loyalty.

  11. Vivek Ramaswamy = Trump Sycophant in Training. SAD!

  12. Imagine telling a GOP member prior to 2015 that someday their lead candidate for POTUS would be a former, twice-impeached President with 4 criminal indictments who tried to reverse an election? To say the GOP has become a liability to the nation as it descended into chaos is an understatement.

  13. Death of democracy in America 😢

  14. Trump disqualified by his own actions 14th Amendment section three applies to Trump and his Maga anti-American lunatics coconspirators Senators and Congressman anyone involved on January Sixth and days afterwards. What other country in civilized world would all treasonous traitors stay in office or run for president to do it all again . What Country in whole world would allow Espionage act criminals run for president sad pathetic and incredibly Ludacris comes to mind . Lady Liberty 🗽🗽🗽 and our American Constitution 14 AMENDMENT section three bans any person from public office is worn in ant try to overthrow our Democratic Republic from with in the highest encalleons of our government trying to tear up our Constitutional laws. Have beensaying this for three years it obvious. God bless one and all be safe you all.

  15. Biden – 2024
    Trump – in jail

  16. Folks like Chuck define the absolute worst of our country… the most hateful, intellectually dishonest, inciting of hate p.o.s. In our country today… he’s not stupid, he knows exactly what he’s doing by lying the American people, it’s evil and disgusting!

  17. Folks like Chuck define the absolute worst of our country… the most hateful, intellectually dishonest, inciting of hate p.o.s. In our country today… he’s not stupid, he knows exactly what he’s doing by lying the American people, it’s evil and disgusting!

  18. Mugshot worth over 7MIL 👀

  19. ~ Even if Trump loses the presidency, most Republicans, if they win, will hand out gratituous pardons to Trump & the others.

  20. Wait 'til the October trial of Chesebro and maybe Powell. There will be a TELEVISED parade of Trump flunkies, plea takers, telling how their illegal behavior was all at his bidding. A few states may announce plans to bar him from their ballots. By primary time, he may have lost a chunk of his MAGAs, and many other Republicans.

  21. During Trump's presidency, the US economy suffered the fastest contraction since 1946 with a 3.5% decrease in GDP growth – the worst since the Great Depression. Trump was the worst jobs president in recorded history with the economy losing 2.9 million jobs. The distance separating America's highest and lowest income brackets grew by almost 9% annually. Trump Administration trade policies resulted in farm bankruptcies increasing 24% with the the loss of nearly a quarter of a million jobs. The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services increased 40.5%. The Trump administration incurred the second-highest annual deficit of any president in history and the federal debt held by the public increased 39%.

  22. To avoid jail, Trump's co-defendants are talking, turning on each other and against him. Schaefer already flipped. 🧐🍿

  23. Chuck Todd– (at 3:07) "… Rama- SWAHM-uh-lee…" !!!! Really??? CBS is behind this?

  24. The amount of copium and mental gymnastics exhibited by this journalist astounds me. He seems to forget the system of justice calls for a trial with juries before anyone can be declared guilty of anything. But this guy already declared Trump guilty and marched him off to prison. What a poor lost soul

  25. CONCENTRATE ON local and state elections. "media" focuses on national elections and this distracts from where power resides. Ever consider where the REAL POWER resides in America? That it AIN'T with the President. He does not MAKE the law. Media has baffled and confused the electorate by focusing all its attention on presidential elections. CONGRESS, State Legislatures, County AND local governments MAKE the laws. Voters must focus on ALL local elections, State elections, EVERY 2 YEARS, OR WHENEVER THEY HAPPEN, NOT JUST EVERY 4 YEARS, AND ALL CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS, if they want results. THE GQP (successor to the GOP) has spent decades taking over state legislatures and local governments, SO, BECOME A POLITICAL ACTIVIST. ORGANIZE YOUR COMMUNITY AROUND SANE POLICIES, CAMPAIGN FOR SANE POLITICIANS, OR RUN FOR OFFICE. GET ELECTED. YOU CAN DO IT!

  26. Trump will never win the election, that's just a fact. So we will be left with Biden, and that's what bothers me. Every time he speaks to the press I am afraid to watch.

  27. Chuck Todd needs to be fired.

  28. The GOP is a Trumpster Fire!

  29. By title 14 in the Constitution, Donald Trump will not be on the ballots at all.

  30. If Trump is elected President in 2024 the democratic republic of the USA will be destroyed within a year…Be warned☠

  31. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee opened an investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis Thursday over whether her prosecution of former President Trump is "politically motivated."

  32. He is not eligible to go on the ballot…. Per the Constitution. He incited an insurrection

  33. Imagination… imagine that, a rabid leftist telling US about imagination. The only thing leftist have any imagination for is hate!

  34. How can world 🌎 leaders respect the USA after trump mugshots running for president to stay out of jail

  35. 11,000 views and 150 thumbs up. Lol. The world supports the msm, lol.

  36. Todd backs the killings of Biden/Elites!

  37. Chuck is hallucinating

  38. Strange as it sounds, I would lay down a bet today that Trump will not be the nominee come November. That seems unlikely, but that's why the bet will pay off handsomely. Polling yesterday, today, and tomorrow ignores the effect of 20 people not named Trump being indicted alongside him, the steady drip drip drip of those who flip, and what will be very public finger-pointing at each other when talking about personalities like Giuliani and Powell – and bear in mind the "un-indicted co-conspirators," some of whom are possibly still on the hook. Another important factor is that Christie, more than anyone, has set up a "permission structure" for people to turn away from Trump. He polls terribly, but unlike the six sycophants he's playing the long game.