It emerged Thursday that disgraced former President Donald Trump has been indicted again, this time on still-undisclosed charges related to the federal government’s handling of his classified documents. Of course on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow had to weigh in.
But Medado was not surprised by this. Indictment, she told Lawrence O’Donnell during Thursday’s episode of “The Last Word,” was “an inevitability.”
“The surprising thing is we put that guy in the White House,” she said.
Earlier, Maddow spoke about the difficult situation in which this news puts the United States. You don’t want to be the kind of country where the only thing that happens is that your former leaders go to jail. It just introduces all these other things to your politics that wouldn’t be better to deal with,” she told O’Donnell.
“The problem is not that we brought forward someone in our American national politics who is being treated like this. The problem is that we brought forward someone in our national politics with criminal liabilities like this, Medado continued.
Maddow then looked into the myriad legal problems Trump had before he even became president, such as his lawsuit over the bogus Trump University, and the payments he had to make on a fraudulent charity. He then examines how legal problems related to trade continued well into his presidency.
“His business has been criminally indicted as fraud. His CFO just got out of Riker. His campaign spent time in federal prison as a fraud. His campaign manager is awaiting trial, ” He said.
“With a person with a track record like that, are we surprised that the person who has been convicted is in the middle? No, it’s not surprising. What is surprising is that we found that person in the White House Put.’
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