Maddow: ‘I’m Expecting’ Trump Will Pardon Michael Flynn Sunday To Distract From Stormy Interview

This Sunday, 60 Minutes is going to air Anderson Cooper’s highly anticipated interview with porn star Stormy Daniels, in which she is expected to dish on her alleged 2006 affair with President Donald Trump. With the 60 Minutes episode expected to pull in huge ratings and dominate the national conversation following its broadcast, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is betting that the president will do something massive as a distraction.

Pointing out that many feel that Trump’s sudden Thursday announcement that John Bolton would take over for H.R. McMaster as national security adviser was meant to distract from Cooper’s Karen McDougal interview, Maddow noted last night that we could see the same thing occur on Sunday.

“Heaven help us for whatever this president and this White House are going to do to distract us this weekend,” she stated.

“What do you do to distract from the second interview?” Maddow declared. “In the ‘You Have To Buy Me Tacos Staff Betting Pool’ on this, my pick is Mike Flynn early pardon. Pardon on early Sunday afternoon.”

The MSNBC anchor explained that while she loves tacos, she isn’t “rooting” for the president to pardon his former national security adviser. Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and is reportedly cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

“I’m expecting that’s what we’ll get,” she continued. “I have a square. Mike Flynn pardon and my timing early Sunday afternoon.”

Maddow went on to say that markets have plunged heading into the weekend due largely to Trump’s recent trade policy actions, but also because there is an expectation that Trump will do something “weird or dramatic” to distract from the Stormy interview.

Watch the clip above, via MSNBC.

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