The latest move from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) prompted a particularly strong reaction from former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Steele.
During a Monday segment on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” co-host Alicia Melendez told viewers about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s announcement that she would be convening a grand jury to investigate “unfounded accusations” that former President Barack Obama conspired to hurt Trump’s chances of winning the 2016 election. She emphasized that there was “zero evidence to support those allegatons.”
Melendez then reminded her audience that this announcement comes on the heels of the Trump administration’s announcement last week that it would be launching an investigation into former DOJ special counsel Jack Smith, in response to a complaint by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). The Arkansas Republican alleged that Smith’s criminal investigation was politically motivated and done as a means of harming Trump’s 2024 campaign.
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“Again, zero evidence to support those allegations,” Melendez said, before introducing Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.
That opening segment prompted Steele — another co-host of “The Weeknight” — to blast the Trump administration for basing investigations on what he alleged was “a pile of BS.”
“Congressman Raskin, why is this so hard for people to not get that this is all bullcrap? That this is just just another pile of BS they’re laying on top of all the other BS that’s come out of this administration?” Steele said. “Fomented by conspiracies, fomented by a lot of ignorant people who are wholly incompetent in their government jobs to begin with, who have nothing better to do than to seize on storylines that have been disproven. Tell me, sir, what substantive charges could possibly come out of this?”
Raskin responded that the only correct answer to Steele’s question was “nothing,” and suggested the investigations were more evidence of Trump “madly pointing his fingers in 500 different directions to try to distract everybody from the Epstein investigation.” He also corrected the record and noted that even then-Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — who is now Trump’s secretary of state and national security advisor — acknowledged the basic facts that Russia attempted to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
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