Rachel Maddow denounced Republicans for attending Trump’s trial and trying to undermine or destroy the justice system.
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Ma Duo said (transcript from AlexA Wagner Tonight/MSNBC):
What you get is these members of Congress saying we’re here to support him and that the American legal system is illegal and corrupt and the judges are corrupt. Let me tell you about the judge’s family… Instead you have a political party that says the American legal system should be abolished because it is corrupt and the people involved in it are corrupt, bad, evil, persecuting you and I.
That’s a completely different thing. If this is going to be the new platform for Republicans to prove to the American people that they deserve to be back in power, then it will at least corrode the legal system and potentially undermine it fundamentally.
Rachel #马多 Regarding Republicans attacking the judicial system in the Trump trial, “This would at least corrode the legal system and potentially be fundamentally damaging.” pic.twitter.com/diJNWzgB9O
— Sarah Rhys-Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 17, 2024
Maddow also pointed out that the members of Congress who appeared in court were not there to support Trump, but for political reasons. She said there was a big difference between supporting someone in court and someone in power using their position to attack the justice system.
Republicans are not trying to support Trump. The Republicans who went to court were motivated by delegitimizing any conviction for political gain.
How many people would stand up for Donald Trump if he were not the Republican nominee for president?
Republicans who support Trump don’t care about him. They used his trial to boost their political brand in an election year.
The Republican Party’s willingness to destroy the judicial system for political gain was the most obvious lesson from Trump’s “Make America Great Again” march at the courthouse.
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