As MSNBC — not exactly a bastion of journalistic excellence — desperately continues its self-defeating efforts to portray Mahmoud Khalil, the antisemitic pro-Hamas activist who helped lead protests against Israel at Columbia University last spring, the network’s latest ridiculous claim is that the Trump administration is using “authoritarian logic” against the agitator.
On Saturday’s episode of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” guest-host Melissa Murray welcomed Khalil’s attorney, Raher Azmy, who warned, “They will” go after others. Murray followed up with a false claim:
So, regardless of where you fall on the Gaza question, this is really concerning just generally for the rule of law. This is someone who is exercising First Amendment rights and has been detained and hasn’t had an opportunity to exercise his due process rights to challenge his deportation,…
