MSNBC’s Lemire Says Biden ‘Deeply Afraid’ Trump Supporters Will Put Selves ‘In Harm’s Way’ Over Trump Lies as Milton Devastates

GEIST: “You expect it from a backbencher, conspiracy theorist from Georgia.”
BARNICLE: “Do you really, though?”
GEIST: “From her? Yes, I do, actually. From her. You can expect those conspiracies. But from a leading presidential candidate, it’s beyond dangerous.”
BARNICLE: “This is the leading presidential candidate and during his term in office tried to alter the map the hurricane came from because I disagreed, because the path the actual path of the hurricane disagreed —“
GEIST: “Changed it with a Sharpie.”
BARNICLE: “Yeah.”
GEIST: “Yeah.”
BARNICLE: “And Marjorie Taylor Greene — I mean, what can you say about that? What can you say? I mean, you have people in this country who actually listen to her and find some credibility, perhaps in something she says, there are people like that. It’s beyond belief. It’s beyond description. It’s beyond even us talking about it. It’s like crazy-land.”
LEMIRE: “And it’s another way of chipping away at American institutions. And I know some Biden officials I spoke to yesterday just deeply afraid that the Trump supporters who listen to Trump and his crazy claims aren’t going to then heed the calls from state and local federal officials because they’re not going to believe. And they think that’s going to be political. And they might stay and put themselves in harm’s way or refuse to get that federal aid from FEMA and the like. We saw that in western North Carolina after Helene, fears it could happen here again in Florida.”
BARNICLE: “You know what you just pointed out, Jonathan, gets to the actual — contrasting the actual damage done by these hurricanes on the ground, and the danger it presents to people on the ground, and the damage, the damage that the Trump Administration, the former president himself and people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, the damage they have done to the institutional faith that some people have in the government, that you’re going to get your retirement check, that you’re going to get your Social Security, that the government will perform for you, that the government will help you in times of need or trouble, as we are witnessing here in Florida. That damage is lasting.”