Dennis Quaid on Voting for Trump: ‘More than Politics, I See a Weaponization of Our Justice System’

Morgan: “What do you think of Trump?”
QUAID: “I myself, I think — I think I’m gonna vote for him.”
Morgan: “Really?”
QUAID: “Yeah, in the next election. Yes, I am. I — “
Morgan: “Are you ready for the blowback that inevitably comes with Trump?”
QUAID: “Well, I think this election — and everybody’s gonna — I think you have to take a side or whatever, but it’s — it just seems to — it makes sense. I was ready not to vote for Trump until what I saw is more than politics. I see a weaponization of our justice system and a challenge to our Constitution, us as Americans, I don’t think we’re gonna have. And Trump is the most investigated person, probably in the history of the world, and they haven’t been able to really get him on anything.”
Morgan: “And this whole Stormy Daniels thing to me is so kind of pathetic. I mean, whatever happens, as we sit here now, we’re going to find out in a few days whether he’s guilty or not guilty, I don’t think it matters.”
QUAID: “It doesn’t.”
Morgan: “If anything, if he’s found guilty, it’ll probably help him more.”
QUAID: “Yeah, even the way you just said it made it seem like that trial, guilty or not guilty, is about Stormy Daniels.”
Morgan: “Right.”
QUAID: “Which it’s not.”
Morgan: “No, it’s not.”
QUAID: “In fact, what is the crime? I still can’t figure it out. Neither can they, because they haven’t said what it is. They took a misdemeanor that had run out of its — run out of its time and turned it into a felony and — but they won’t even say what that is.”
Morgan: “Do you have to like Trump to vote for him? Do you like him personally?”
QUAID: “Well, look, you know, I was — in the last — in the last campaign, in ‘16 and in ‘20, I found myself going, ‘Oh, please don’t do that. Please don’t say that.’ You know, these things will come out of his mouth and — but, as president, I — the only thing I liked about Trump was everything he did.”
Morgan: “Right.”
QUAID: “What he did with Korea, with ‘Rocket baby,’ the way he defeated ISIS in three weeks, you know, people don’t even remember it, it happened so fast. How he stood up for us overseas and — and China, the way he responded to China. He stands up to people and that’s what makes him a leader rather than what I — I kind of compare it to what was going on in Jimmy Carter’s administration when we were trying to be everybody’s friend and pal, and there’s some evil people and bad actors in this world. And so, you know, people might call him an assh*le, but he’s my assh*le.”
Morgan: “Right. No, I get that.”
QUAID: “Because he’s — one true thing about him is that I really feel that he is working for the American people. That’s what he’s all about. And I do believe that to be true and sincere.”
Morgan: “And is Biden simply too old? Is that the biggest problem for him?”
QUAID: “I — I don’t feel he is at the helm.”
Morgan: “Right.”
QUAID: “I don’t feel he’s there. And I don’t — I feel that he says things to get votes, not that he truly believes in them.”