MSNBC’s Deutsch: ‘Brand’ Trump a ‘Criminal’ Despite Mueller Not Finding Criminal Conduct

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GEIST: “Let’s bring into this conversation the host of ‘Saturday Night Politics’ on MSNBC, Donny Deutsch. Donny, what do you make of this argument? This is the political argument versus the base argument, and you want the word ‘impeachment’ out of the conversation. Explain that.”
DEUTSCH: “I want to rebrand the fight. You have to fight. The Democrats have to fight, to the Rev’s point. But you don’t want a fight that you’re going to lose. You’re going to lose an impeachment fight for two reasons. Because Donald Trump gets to say, ‘They’re coming to take me away, they’re going to take your president,’ and it’s not going to go anywhere in the Senate. So you do look like sore losers and you’re setting up a losing fight. Does that mean you don’t fight? No. You rebrand the fight. Step away from the ‘impeachment’ and change it to the ‘Trump criminal investigations.’ Already brand him a criminal. You say Robert Mueller basically said he obstructed justice. We know that, that was a criminal activity, he just couldn’t indict because of the guidelines. We know he’s an unindicted co-conspirator with the Southern District. We know we’ll be looking at his taxes, his philanthropies. You Nancy Pelosi, you Jerry Nadler, you Adam Schiff, you Elijah Cummings, start the criminal investigations. Impeachment may be part of it. Brand him a criminal already. You’ve already had an A.G. that’s gone on a branding exercise. The head of the judicial system went on a branding exercise successfully. The Congress needs to rebrand impeachment ‘the Trump criminal investigations.’ Have him saying, ‘I’m not a criminal.’ That is the simple winning fight. Rebrand it. Impeachment is not the right word for you. But you have a fight. It’s the Trump criminal investigations.”
GEIST: “Donny, I think Rev is about to launch a protest against you.”