Nicolle Wallace Suggests Trump Will Take Her off Air If He Wins in November: ‘I Might Not Be Sitting Here’

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace suggested on Monday that former President Donald Trump could take her off the air if he wins a second term in the White House in November.

“The annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner is one of the symptoms, one of the signs of a healthy functioning democracy,” opened Wallace on her show Deadline: White House:

Behind the levity, though, there was something darker. A darker undercurrent, if you will, and a point that the president had to make, and it was more profoundly serious. Because at this exact time next year, depending what happens in November seven months from now, we can’t say for certain that there would even be a White House Correspondents’ Dinner, or even a free press, or even a White House Press Corps.

Playing a clip of President Joe Biden’s toast “to a free press” at the end of his Correspondents’ Dinner speech on Saturday, Wallace continued:

I’ve seen that toast a bunch of times, but it landed very differently this year, because depending what happens in November, seven months from right now, this time next year I might not be sitting here. There might not be a White House Correspondents’ Dinner or free press.

She concluded, “While our democracy wouldn’t exactly fall apart immediately without it, the real threat looms larger. A candidate with outward disdain, not just for a free press, but for all our freedoms and for the rule of law itself.”

During his speech on Saturday, Biden warned the journalists in attendance to take Trump’s remarks about revenge and retribution “seriously” and to “rise” to the moment.

“The defeated former president has made no secret of his attack on our democracy. He said he wants to be a dictator on day one, and so much more,” said Biden. “He tells supporters he is their revenge and retribution. When, in God’s name, have you ever heard another president say something like that? And he promised a bloodbath when he loses again. We have to take this seriously.”

Biden continued, “Eight years ago, it was written off as ‘just Trump talk.’ But, no longer. Not after Jan. 6. I’m sincerely not asking you to take sides. I’m asking you to rise up to the seriousness of the moment.”

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