Chris Hayes didn’t maintain again on Tuesday’s (August 26) version of MSNBC’s All In as he blasted Donald Trump for his affiliation with criminals, calling him essentially the most “pro-criminal president of my lifetime.”
“Donald Trump, the President of those United States, desires to be a dictator; he’s attempting to be a dictator. He’s stated it a number of instances this week,” Hayes stated on the prime of Tuesday’s present earlier than pointing to a comment Trump made about how some folks suppose he must be a dictator as a result of he’s “stopping all of the crimes.”
Hayes took concern with Trump’s claims of being powerful on crime, noting, “It simply is determined by who’s doing the crime, doesn’t it?”
The long-time MSNBC host went on to say, “Donald Trump is essentially the most unabashedly pro-criminal, pro-crime President in my lifetime,” earlier than studying off an inventory he’d compiled of all of the folks Trump has pardoned or come to assistance from simply since taking workplace in January.
This checklist included Trump’s pardoning of the roughly 1,500 January 6 insurrectionists, which Hayes stated, “included a whole bunch who had been handed prolonged sentences for very severe felonies similar to assaulting police with lethal weapons.”
One other particular person Trump pardoned was Ross Ulbricht, the founding father of the web black market drug dealing market, Silk Street, who Hayes known as maybe “the most important drug supplier in American historical past.”
Hayes continued to deliver up others whom Trump had pardoned, together with former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted on a number of counts of corruption, and actuality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who had been convicted of financial institution and tax fraud in 2022.
He additionally talked about these whom Trump has gone out of his method to assist, together with Andrew and Tristan Tate, who’ve been accused of rape and trafficking, who his administration had introduced again to america after they had been detained on prison costs in Romania.
Then there’s Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted baby intercourse trafficker who labored alongside deceased financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. “The Trump administration moved her to a minimal safety jail in opposition to present federal jail coverage, giving her a unprecedented waiver to be in a jail she couldn’t be in as a result of she’s a intercourse offender,” Hayes said.
“These are the prison and unbelievable checklist of people that have completed really terrible issues,” he continued. “Most of them convicted felons, some accused of doing really terrible issues. Every one among these alone could be a scandal that wrecked one other administration… all of them come from the person who claims he’s undoing American carnage.”
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All In With Chris Hayes, Weeknights, 8 pm et, MSNBC