Donnie Deutsch is an advertising, branding, and marketing expert who has known failed former president Donald Trump for decades and once considered him a close friend.
As a result, Deutsch has a great deal of insight into the personality and psyche of the ex-president, some of which he offered up on MSNBC Friday when asked by reporter Jonathan Lemire, “You are someone who has known Donald Trump for a long time. There is reporting this week about him being arrested this week, how it will be good publicity. You know, smile for the cameras were there to be a perp walk.”
Deutsch explained:
“I think for his base, they love it. I don’t think he loses a lot of votes, but he certainly loses the opportunity to get back any of those independents, any of the suburban voters. And I think the Reverend [Al Sharpton] really kind of nailed in the last hour, You’re really seeing — this is a frightened man at this point.”
The former advertising executive then added:
“I’m going to use one of his terms: this is a caged animal who is backed in the corner. He’s looking that way and he’s acting that way — and he’s unhinged and it is so frightening though, when he went through those disgusting anti-Semitic racial tropes, that ‘Soros-backed animal,’ you might as well say dirty Jew Black animal, you might as well say those words because that is what he’s saying. And the fact that other Republicans, including [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis, the number one challenger, does the same thing, does the Soros thing, the same ‘Jew-backing’ this Black man — and one used the word ‘master’ — I think that was [Rep. Elise] Stefanik and whatnot — that’s the stunning talk.”
But it was what Deutsch said next that should concern anyone who cares about the safety and security of the United States as we near a criminal indictment of Trump:
“We know Trump is insane. We know he has lost his mind, we know he’s just continually, continually shriveling away.”
Insane people are unpredictable, and that means that this country will be on alert in the days leading up to, the day of, and the days after Donald Trump is indicted in Manhattan, and potentially in other venues, too.
Here’s the video from MSNBC:
