Rachel Maddow exposes the GOP's 'sprawling nationwide scandal' [View all]

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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.