Following an extended diatribe by MSNBC "Morning Joe" Joe Scarborough aimed at Donald Trump's ugly rhetoric as he makes a third bid for the presidency, Atlantic writer Peter Wehner fired back at the former president, who flipped out on the Atlantic over a piece the former GOP speechwriter wrote about him.
On Saturday, Trump lashed out on Truth Social, writing, "It’s so good to see how badly the THIRD RATE MAGAZINE, The Atlantic, is doing. It’s failing at a level seldom seen before, even in the Publishing Business. False and Fake stories do it every time! They’ve got a rich person funding the ridiculous losses, but at some point, rich people get smart also. Steve Jobs would not be proud of his wife, Laurene, and the way she is spending his money. The Radical Left is destroying America!"
That post was attributed to Trump reportedly seeing — and unlikely reading — Wehner's column titled, "Have You Listened Lately to What Trump Is Saying?" which delved into his increasingly open admissions that he is a fan of authoritarianism.
After Scarborough harshly criticized Trump's threats to have military officials executed for treason for opposing him and making jokes about an assistant attacking Nancy Pelosi's 83-year-old husband with a hammer, Wehner theorized that the former president is simply a sociopath.
"There is a long history of this dehumanization, these passions consuming people, including people of faith," Wehner said of Trump's rabid fanbase. "That's why I think there has to be such a pushback from others, to try, in a sense, to shake them and say, 'Do you know what you're doing? Do you know what you're a part of? You've jettisoned everything you claim to most cherish in your life to make inner peace with this man who is a sociopath, an unfiltered sociopath.'"
"And he is undisguised in who he is and what he wants to do," he worried. "That not only pushes them away, but it brings them toward him. It is a sickening episode in the history of American politics and the history of American Christianity."
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