Behar Claims Trump’s Tariffs Plan Is Meant to Intentionally ‘Destroy the Country’ So ‘His Billionaire Friends Can Swoop in and Buy Everything Low’

BEHAR: “First of all, in order to kiss his ass, you have to get Mike Johnson out of the way. (Laughter) That’s number one. Number two, what is his exact plan, is what I want to know.”
HOSTIN: “Yeah.”
BEHAR: “I was home — I had a cold yesterday, so I was home watching everything. And I’m thinking, he’s trying to destroy the country. Now why is he doing that?”
HOSTIN: “Yeah.”
BEHAR: “Just as a person in the — in the audience, like watching this.”
Goldberg: “Yeah.”
BEHAR: “So there’s a couple of theories.”
Goldberg: “Yes. And — and —“ [crosstalk]
BEHAR: “First of all, he — if he tanks the entire, what do you call it?”
HOSTIN: “Economy? Stock market?”
Goldberg: “Stock market?”
BEHAR: “The stock market —“
Goldberg: “What happens.”
BEHAR: “— then all his billionaire friends can swoop in and buy everything low. That’s not an original idea, that’s — Hakeem Jeffries said that.”
HOSTIN: “Yeah.
BEHAR: “And the other thing — and in fact today on Truth Social, he wrote, Trump wrote, ‘A great time to buy.’ Hmm.
HOSTIN: “Ah!”
BEHAR: “The other theory is from James Carville, which I think is interesting, that he wants to stoke such instability and chaos to consolidate power for himself, so that people start to really go nuts, which we’re starting to.”
Goldberg: “No, we’re not.”
BEHAR: “Well, people are starting to get mad.”
Goldberg: “Well, that’s good.”
BEHAR: “Yeah.”
Goldberg: “You want them to get mad.”
BEHAR: “Yeah. But how — how mad will people get, and how broke will people get, and how many jobs will be lost? And then he can — he can say, well, there’s too much chaos, and now we’re going to have martial law in this country, and he becomes a dictator. I mean, I don’t know, that may be out — out of the bounds.”
Goldberg: “Anything is possible.”
BEHAR: “But it’s possible.”
Goldberg: “Yeah.”
BEHAR: “So as it just says, somebody watching the news, that’s what I say.”