Chuck Todd: Was It A Mistake To "Overly Censor" Donald Trump? "Deplatforming Him Has Sort Of Protected The Public" -…

NBC's Chuck Todd asked on Thursday's broadcast of his MSNBC program if it was a good idea to ban former President Donald Trump from social media platforms and if it is possible to deescalate the "threat that he really presents."

Warner said, "Clearly we're not silencing him. He has an outlet on some of these far-right-wing media where he's speaking to people that believe this garbage."

"Do you think it's been a mistake to overly censor Donald Trump and the stuff he's been saying?" Todd asked Warner. "You know, earlier this week, he also came out and admitted that, yeah, I don't like NATO much, even now, where you're just sitting here, it hit me like a ton of bricks. NATO has been -- this is the most effective NATO has looked in a decade or more. And to just also trash NATO, a former U.S. president doing it, over literally the last 96 hours, you know, deplatforming him has sort of protected the public, right, allows people to say no one cares about it, because I understand people have compartmentalized him."

"There's this idea that he can be incendiary. But sometimes, this is what happens when you try to censor. If you try to censor even the good stuff and you think it's a good idea, are we inadvertently de-escalating the threat that he really presents?" Todd asked.

Warner's response:

Clearly, we're not silencing him. He has an outlet on some of these far-right wing media where he's speaking to people that believe this garbage, but when the Ukrainian people are literally, as I believe, not just fighting for their freedom, but they're fighting on behalf of democracies across the world, and you have a former president of the United States once again kowtowing to Putin and asking for, you know, political dirt and undermining NATO, I never thought I'd see this behavior. How you regular and deal with that, I wish I had a better answer for you. I don't.

CHUCK TODD: There's a lot of people in this country that are rightly outraged about a former German chancellor playing footsie with Putin. It's outrageous then and now when a former U.S. president does it as well.

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Chuck Todd: Was It A Mistake To "Overly Censor" Donald Trump? "Deplatforming Him Has Sort Of Protected The Public" -...