Douglas Brinkley Compares Trump’s Mugshot to John Wilkes Booth’s Wanted Poster

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BRINKLEY: “I see this as the decline of the Republican Party. I mean, we think of the GOP is Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and it’s descending into Donald Trump, who’s being indicted. And this is the first indictment with maybe others to come, yet the Republican Party seems to be backing him for re-election. One would have thought January 6th and Trump’s involvement with that would have been enough to derail Trump. That that would have been the end of his role in politics. Now we’re set up to see the biggest reality show that’s actually real come to life and watching a — I can’t even think of an artifact except maybe wanted — John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination of a wanted poster or a mug shot that’s going to be circulating around the world in the kind of way that this one of Donald Trump is, his finger — the finger printing, the booking of him. It’s really dramatic stuff. And it’s never happened before in American history. We’re all going to be glued, leaning forward to our television sets on Tuesday if all of this unravels as it looks like it is.”

(Via NewsBusters)