Trump indicted: Rachel Maddow joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss charges - The Last Word - MSNBC

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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joined Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the federal indictment against Donald Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith in the Justice Department’s classified documents investigation. The charges include, according to The New York Times, a violation of the Espionage Act. - Aired on 06/08/2023.

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1. It was great having Rachel on tonight

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3. I sure agree, the others missed her input, so she appeared with Lawrence and by phone with Joy Reid

Since the news first broke during the 7pm hour!

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7. And it looks like Lawrence is going back to the Rachel interview in the later hours

He's apparently continuing to cover today's breaking news for the rest of the night!

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2. What Rachel is saying about other officials

is probably exactly why the Espionage Act doesn't mention taking documents, only holding on to documents. Because there is a huge diffenence betrween what Trump** did, and that difference is not just in rhe quantity of the documents.

He also hung on to the documents, hid the documents from searchers, ignored subpoenas, and as can be proved by the photograph of the raid, copied documents.

Neither Pence nor Biden did any of those things. both, when they found they had documents, reported it immediately (and invited searches of their premises.)

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4. Exactly!

Another reason for a "gag order" regarding this serious case since the liar-in-chief is still attempting to conflate the cases (as he did when he announced his indictments today!) - and it needs to be publicly announced (again) that no charges were filed against President Biden nor Mike Pence...

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5. Al always, Rachel has the understanding of history

and the words to put it all into perspective.

What she didn't say, is that the power of a POTUS to pardon his predecessor or anyone, should be abolished.

It just makes a mockery of the legal system.

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6. I sure appreciated the rundown that she gave of TFG's previous legal transgressions

She's always terrific, so glad that they called on her tonight, of all nights!

And I agree with what you said about the pardon power being abolished and so does presidential historian Michael Beschloss. He also weighed in with Lawrence tonight and he said that he believes Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon was a historic mistake.

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8. K&R!

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9. So grateful that Rachel came back tonight to weigh in on today's news!

She was invaluable in enumerating TFG's earlier crimes which we might have forgotten!

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10. This made me smile

Link to tweet

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11. Definitely worth a watch...a lot to unpack