Joy Reid Is Extremely Worried That President Trump Will Lock Himself In The White House And Resist Arrest

Trump derangement syndrome. This is what it looks like.

Joy Reid, who continues to serve as the poster child for shoddy journalism and leftist hypocrisy, is now in the business of getting outraged by hypothetical scenarios.

She floated the following scenario on her show over the weekend: “Let’s say that Donald Trump decides he doesn’t want to give an interview with Mueller, but Mueller says ‘Oh, but you will.’ And he’s subpoenaed to [be] interview[ed] [by] Robert Mueller. And Donald Trump simply says, ‘I don’t recognize that subpoena.’ This is a president whose behavior is different as president of the United States. He doesn’t follow convention. Who would force him to comply with the subpoena ordering him to do an interview with Robert Mueller?”

As you can see, Joy Reid is desperately obsessing over an extremely unlikely hypothetical situation. This is what she’s doing now.

The conversation didn’t end there, either.

It would be a federal court judge,” former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said.

“How would they enforce it?” she asked.

“Normally, a person who refuses to testify before a grand jury winds up being incarcerated for the time period of the grand jury which can be up to 18 months,” Akerman said. “So, one way to enforce it is to have Donald Trump taken by the federal marshals and put into federal prison until he testifies.”

End of the discussion, right? WRONG. What if Trump locks himself in the White House? What if he manipulates Secret Service agents and they all join him and guard the doors to keep the federal marshals out? OMG can you believe President Trump is resisting arrest right now?!

This is the mind of Joy Reid.

“What if he refuses to open the White House door?” Reid asked, seriously. “What if he fires any Secret Service agent who would allow the federal marshals in? What if Donald Trump simply decides I don’t have to follow the law? ‘I refuse to be held under the law. No marshal can get into this White House and any Secret Service agent who defies me is fired.'”

“Well, at some point he is going to have to come out of the White House,” Akerman answered. “At some point, he is going to have to leave and the U.S. Marshals will be directed to take him into custody, bring him before a federal district court judge. He’ll be basically told that either he goes in and he testifies or he takes the Fifth Amendment. If he takes the Fifth Amendment, there’s not a problem. If he refuses to answer on the grounds that a truthful answer would tend to incriminate him he has the right to do that. If he does that, there’s no contempt. If he doesn’t do that, he can be directed to go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. End of story.”

MSNBC's Joy Reid runs a segment on what would happen if President Donald Trump barricaded himself inside the White House and the U.S. Marshalls had to come and arrest him. pic.twitter.com/tdMDBKXyO5

— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) April 9, 2018

I cannot believe she wasted an entire segment on this completely batsh*t scenario. What a fruit loop.

h/t RCP