Rachel Maddow exposes the GOP's 'sprawling nationwide scandal'

[babylonsister]

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Rachel Maddow exposes the GOP’s ‘sprawling nationwide scandal’
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 7:30:04p EDT
Walter Einenkel


Rachel Maddow dedicated time during her show on Monday to talking about the extent of the election fraud rot in the Republican Party. Acknowledging that Donald Trump is always going to hoover “up all the oxygen in the room,” Maddow said she wanted to broaden the scope to look at the GOP as a whole.

"There are at least 53 Republican officials and lawyers and activists who are facing felony criminal counts other than Donald Trump himself," she said.

For example, in Arizona, recently indicted Sen. Jake Hoffman and election denier (and ethics failure) Liz Harris were elected to represent the state in the Republican National Committee. Hoffman is facing multiple felony counts related to his part in the “fake electors” scheme promoted by election deniers during and after the 2020 election, and Harris has a history of election denialism.

Maddow goes on to detail how ludicrous these RNC appointments are by any measure, and she finishes by reminding the audience of the disbarred, imprisoned, and legally compromised MAGA operatives who remain in the news, in the orange shadow of Trump.

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And yes, Trump himself will be back in court tomorrow. And there's stuff to know about that we're going to we're going to get to that tonight. But no matter what happens to him and his own felony cases and in his own political trajectory, do not lose sight of what is happening to the Republican Party. While they have been drafting off him in the lead, because it is an astonishing story on its own.

[Lovie777]

1. And it carries over to the judges and justices...............................

The Republican party is corrupt. They lie, cheat and steal while making up shit.

If anything, they should do a do over, but alas it may be too late.

[malaise]

2. It was excellent

Rec

[Irish_Dem]

3. The GOP is a crime syndicate.

It is no longer a political party.

A mob organization run by the biggest mobster of all time.
Vladimir Putin.

[WA-03 Democrat]

5. Correct!!! 1,000,000 times this and has been

Since they first attacked us in 2015. Russia - if you are listening - fuck off!

[hadEnuf]

12. When you think about it, that is really the only thing that makes sense.

The only difference is that mobsters usually don't mess with common folk. These scumbags do.

In fact common folk are the targets.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Yes they are demonizing various American groups.

Women, LGBT, doctors, teachers, librarians.
And of course they target all liberals as well.

[planetc]

4. Do Listen. Maddow is free of the national media hypnosis.

[hibbing]

6. The party of law and order..haha n/t

[littlemissmartypants]

10. As long as it's their own laws and orders.

[Bluepinky]

7. She always brings up important points no one else is talking about.

Maddow is a national treasure. She and her staff are crack investigators.

[Botany]

8. They have to cheat to win.* End of story and they know that too. Right down to the sweet little old

… ladies who work on Election Day. They know that the GOP’s ideas and programs are not
popular with the vast majority of the American people so gerrymandering, electoral college
shit, misinformation, removing legitimate voters from the voter rolls, and electronic voting
machines are all in play.

Who really thinks that the “dirty 53” and their fraudulent ballots was the first time those
people had cheated to maintain power?

*. We haven’t had a legitimate Republican elected as POTUS since Eisenhower.
Nixon stopped LBJ’s deal to end the war in Vietnam, Reagan worked with the Ayatollah
to hold the hostages in exchange for arms, which was a HW Bush operation, w had Florida
2000 and the SCOTUS stopping the counting of the vote, and then in 2016 we had Trump
and company working with Russia.

[Hugin]

9. In the big Venn diagram of life there's two circles...

Things that are “legal” and things which “are not illegal”. (Many of which, perhaps should be illegal.)

The modern GOP seems intent on operating in that second circle.

One way to tell if you are being gamed is if your opponent has ever uttered the phrase, “But, that’s not illegal.” Rules and laws are rarely exhaustive.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Rachel had a truly great show this week

Thank you for posting this

[calimary]

13. So what the fuck does she think she can accomplish by being on the air ONCE A WEEK???

[SupportSanity]

15. That's the problem with all of this: the staggering numbers.

How many voted for him.

How many are ready to die on their sword for him.

That's the depressing part. Truly awful