Maddow joins colleagues in objecting to McDaniel for legitimizing Trump, attacking democracy

the person who is the leader of the Republican Party during Donald Trump's term and during his effort to overturn the election result and remain in power anyway and during his effort to run for election again after having done so is R Romney McDaniel and her. He contributed to and helped set in motion the part of the plot that involved sending fake Trump electors to Congress from states Trump didn't win so that Republicans in Washington could use those fake and fraudulent elector lists to claim that maybe Trump did. won those states. Although he didn't believe me and doesn't believe me, there she is on page 23 and page 27 of the federal indictment accusing Donald Trump of conspiring to defraud the United States.

There is her personal appearance at this crime scene as alleged by the US Department of Justice in this ongoing criminal case in Michigan, where fake voters are now on trial, she told the state of Michigan in writing. which does not explicitly certify the results of the elections. Detroit news reported that with Donald Trump on the phone with her, she directed Michigan election officials did not certify the vote, she told them to subpoena, don't sign it, we'll get you lawyers, she filed, she was part of the project and what was the project to use the power of the Republican Party.

Republican officials in the states. Republican officials in Washington, the national Republican party she leads, use the power of the party to reject election results, seize government, and maintain power by other means, and this project is underway right now; the project is to tell the American people that those efforts around the 2020 election were fair that the 2020 election was not right those election results were not right we should not believe in the American election we should not believe that the American election They are real elections, the results of the American elections should not be seen as real, they should not be respected, that is the project now.

I mean, it didn't work to overthrow the government last time, but as long as you can build on that first effort and you can maintain the anti-election mythology then you're preparing your people. You are either preparing the American public not to accept the results of the upcoming election, or you are telling them that they are going to need to seize power by other means because the elections will no longer be the way we do them. We are also honestly preparing people to vote and leave this so-called

democracy

we have because what's the point? Anyway, what are we really losing if we decide we're going to lose this, who cares? cares if we give them up Ron McDaniel has been collaborating on that too and he continues to say since 2020 that that election was wrong, that the American public should know that that vote was not real and that is a message not only about 2020 but about this next one election and whether or not elections should matter at all and whether we should bother having them, whether the Republican Party endorses that message is a choice.

I mean, Trump himself is going to do whatever he wants to do, we always have. We had guys like Trump, sometimes they were ridiculous little uniforms, true, but we've always had guys like that. Never before have we had a major American political institution with great history. Embracing a guy like that even when it came to overthrowing the American system of government and at a time like this, it's hard, right? I mean, it's a challenging and worrying time for Republican officials to decide whether they're going to defend the American system of government or not. Republican politicians, you know, Congress has to decide whether or not they are going to assert their own relevance, they are going to assert their own independence, their own role in government, whether or not they are going to defend our system of government, judges and prosecutors have to decide whether they are going to be braver than they ever thought they would be they have to be in this job, they have to decide whether they are going to stand up to threats and violence and yet be independent, be brave, stand up for their own independence and therefore , defend our system of government.

Ordinary citizens have to decide whether we are going to defy threats and violence to stay involved in politics to work on campaigns to volunteer as election workers despite all the threats, all the attacks, all the violence to defend our system of government and then there is the press which is both reporting on all of this and is also part of it because just as a strong man needs to control the judiciary or get rid of it, he needs to control Congress or get rid of it, he needs to control to the political opposition or get rid of it.

Of that, what the strong man wants most before all that, the necessary precursor to all that is to control the Free Press or get rid of it and, you know, in the Press we don't take it personally when they attack us when you know , they say they want to put us on trial and execute us for treason, we don't do it, we don't take it personally, but we do defend ourselves as an institution, not because we feel personally offended by the way we are treated, but because a free and without intimidation a free press is necessary for our

democracy

and without intimidation it is part of our system of government we defend ourselves as a way to defend our country and our constitution, the First Amendment that makes it possible for us to exist and that is why I want to associate myself with all my

colleagues

at both MSNBC and NBC News who have expressed strong and principled objections to our company putting someone on the payroll who has not only attacked us as journalists, um. but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government, someone who is still trying to convince Americans that this election thing doesn't really work, that this last election wasn't a real result, that the American elections are fraudulent because that argument is a necessary part, it is the most necessary part of the overall project of getting us as Americans to give up these electoral things because, anyway, wouldn't we rather have a real man in charge, someone that I could really achieve something? things done if only we could remove all the things in their path, we have a long history in this country of forgettable men telling us that we need a new system of government where everything is under their control and politics is over and this new way of strongman government The government is going to make America great again.

We've had a lot of these guys, but our generation's version of this guy has come so much further than the rest of them and why would he have been as forgotten as the rest? them if she had not been able to attach herself to an institution like the Republican Party and if the leader of that party in her time had not decided that she would not just accept him, she would help him, help him with the worst, as I understand it. that MSNBC leadership did not object to NBC News hiring Ron McDaniel when the matter first arose, but when the hiring was announced and the MSNBC staff essentially unanimously and instantly expressed their outrage, our leadership at MSNBC listened to us, understood and adjusted the course that we were told this weekend in clear terms Ron McDaniel will not be on our air Ron and McDaniel will not be on MSNBC and I say that and I give you that level of detail because since then there has been an effort by others parts of the company to muddy that up in the press and make it seem like that's not what happened at MSNBC.

I can assure you that is what happened on MSNBC. Ron McDaniel will not appear on MSNBC, so our boss has said since Saturday and it has never been more than clear and I will also say that they know if If you care what I think about this, I will tell you that the fact that Ms. McDaniel is on the NBC News payroll to me is inexplicable. I mean, wouldn't you hire a wise guy? You wouldn't hire a servant like a gangster to work in the district attorney's office, would you? I wouldn't hire a pickpocket to work as a TSA screener, so I find the decision to put her on the payroll inexplicable and I wait. they will reverse their decision and it's not about, you know, Democratic party, Republican party, it's not about partisanship, it's not about right versus left, it's not about being a political professional versus another type of person, it's not about being mean or nice to journalists, it's not about simply being associated with Donald Trump and his time in the Republican Party it's not even about lying or not lying, it's about our system of government and undermining elections and persecuting democracy as an ongoing project, and this is a difficult time for us as a country. and I think that means we need to have a clear view of the implications that difficult times have on difficult decisions.

We're dealing with something we've never had to deal with before in the news business. Yes, we are covering a choice we all make. time, but we are also covering the bad actors who are trying to use the rights and privileges of a democracy to end democracy, the main threat among them now is not the riers and the CPS, but the astute political professionals who are dedicating their considerable talents to violent washing. revolutionary claims that the elections in the United States are not real, that the electoral results are not real and that they should not be respected, we now face this not from the right of William Dudley Pell's brown shirt militias, but from the operation massive multi-billion dollar politics of one of the two ruling parties of the United States of America and that is new and with our country facing something so daunting, so scary and so dangerous for the country.

I think bad decisions will inevitably happen, mistakes will be made, but part of our resilience. As a democracy, you will recognize us, you will recognize when decisions are bad and reverse those bad decisions, you will listen to legitimate criticism, respond to it and correct course, you will not dig deeper, you will not blame others, take a minute, recognize that maybe it was not the decision correct. It is a sign of strength, not weakness, recognizing when you were wrong is a sign of strength and our country needs us to be strong right now. Hello everyone, MSNBC has a new and improved app.

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