Now MSNBC’s Reid, Not Chris Matthews, Compares Trump to the Romanovs

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MATTHEWS: "Joy, do you think he would sacrifice an independent judiciary, an independent press, a free press, the institutions of the federal government, especially the FBI, the CIA, all to save his skin? Would he be glad to destroy all that?"
REID: "In a hot second. I think Eli is 100% right. This is I am the state. All that matters is me. This is the fever dream of Roger stone, if Nixon could have run watergate this way and had the Republican Party defend him, trash the media, trash the CIA, the FBI, everything that is not there to shore up Donald Trump is an enemy of the state because the state is Donald Trump. It’s really frightening when you think about it. As an American, this is not the republic that was set up. Donald Trump is not the state, but in his mind, he might as well be a Romanov, the state is him, and anyone can be an enemy, even the CIA and the FBI. It’s really frightening."
MATTHEWS: "The Romanov rule as a family only for themselves. Thank you, Joy Reid, Eli Stokols and frank Montoya."