Rachel Maddow Highlights Trump Admin’s Latest Litany Of ‘Weirdness And Destruction’
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The news host pored over an extensive series of brazen and bizarre decisions by President Donald Trump and members of his administration.
Rachel Maddow on Tuesday examined the latest “weirdness” from President Donald Trump and his administration, arguing that the litany of apparent scandals would have typically ruined any other administration.
The MS NOW, formerly known as MSNBC, host began with FBI Director Kash Patel, whose 27-year-old girlfriend Alexis Wilkins has apparently been given a full-time security detail in an unprecedented use of the agency’s resources and taxpayer dollars, according to two people who spoke to MS NOW.
“The FBI has never before had a taxpayer-funded security detail for an FBI official’s girlfriend, but that’s what we’re paying for now. The girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel has members of the FBI’s SWAT team protecting her as if they’re private bodyguards,” Maddow said.
“But they are paid for by you,” she reiterated.
Maddow noted that Patel has even tried to increase the maximum monetary value of gifts that he is legally allowed to accept in his position, citing comments from Joseph Tirrell, director of the Departmental Ethics Office, a division within the U.S. Department of Justice.
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“These are serious charges, and that’s the reason we’re going to have special oversight,” said Sen. Roger Wicker, the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.