Rachel Maddow slams Republicans for showing up at Trump’s trial to attack the justice system

Rachel Maddow blasted Republicans for showing up at Trump’s trial and trying to damage or destroy the justice system.

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Maddow said (transcribed via Alexa Wagner Tonight’ / MSNBC):

What you get is these members of Congress saying that we are here to support him, and that the American justice system is illegitimate and corrupt and that the judge is corrupt. And let me tell you about the judge’s family… When instead you have a political party that says the American justice system should be abolished because it is corrupt, and the people involved in it are corrupt and evil and evil and persecute you and me.

That is something completely different. That is, at the very least, damaging to the justice system and potentially fundamentally destructive if it becomes the new platform on which the Republican Party wants to convince the American people that they should regain full power.

Rachel #Maddow on Republicans attacking the justice system during the Trump trial: “That is, at the very least, damaging to the justice system and potentially fundamentally destructive.” pic.twitter.com/diJNWzgB9O

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Maddow also pointed out that the members of Congress appearing in court are not doing so to support Trump, but for political reasons. She said there is a big difference between supporting someone in the courtroom and supporting people in power who use their position to attack the justice system.

Republicans are not trying to support Trump. The Republicans who appear in court have the motive to delegitimize any conviction for political gain.

If Donald Trump were not the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, how many of these people would show up to support him?

The Republicans who showed up for Trump don’t care about him. They are using his process to boost their own political brand in an election year.

The Republican Party is willing to destroy the justice system for their political gain, and that is the clearest lesson from Trump’s MAGA parade at the courthouse.

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