Once again, President Trump doubles down.

Never mind the pipe bombs that approach Trump fanatics sent to top Democrats, or the

horrific murders by a deranged anti-Semite at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

The President decides to ignore calls to tone down his polarizing rhetoric.

Instead, in the final days before the midterms, his campaign committee releases an incendiary

ad showing footage of a snickering illegal immigrant talking about killing cops.

The tagline, the Democrats let him into the country, the Democrats let him stay.

Before that ad was even released and then tweeted by Trump himself, a New York Times column

anticipated it all.

In a piece that ran on the paper's op-ed page last weekend, the column detailed the

long rich history of Republican fear mongering, from Richard Nixon's southern strategy to the

notorious 1988 Willie Horton ad, flashing images of a convicted African American murderer

who had been pardoned by Michael Ducakis.

The only difference, and it is a shocking one, is that Donald Trump cuts out the middle

man, the column noted, he handles the dirty work himself and rebels in it.

And the only question now is, will it work?

We'll discuss with the author of that New York Times column, the legendary Maureen Dowd

on this episode of Skull Duggery.

There is absolutely no collusion.

I didn't make a phone call to Russia.

I have nothing to do with Russia.

Everybody knows it.

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