The Effect of Propaganda on Donald Trump

Ruth Ben-Giat: We're not prepared as a democracy to understand fully the effect that this assault of propaganda. Trump is a highly skilled propaganda as as are others around him, and it has worked for them. One out of six Americans in a new CBS news poll think that all of these indictments and investigations are just a way to punish him and keep him out of the White House. And so when Trump's lawyer went on all the Sunday shows and people were like, why is he you know spending so much time on TV instead of preparing the defense? Right. They're sort of I was like, well, this is his job. Information warfare is the job.