Perhaps the only thing more disturbing than seeing a Democratic leader try to throw his political rivals in jail is watching a so-called Republican gleefully celebrate it while tearing down those who find a peaceful way to protest against the anti-American move.
But that’s exactly what former RNC Chair Michael Steele has done.
(Video: MSNBC)
At a time when President Biden’s Department of Justice is trying to imprison former President Donald Trump on spurious charges for what would amount to a life sentence, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, along with many America First supporters, showed their solidarity with the embattled GOP frontrunner — not by burning down city streets or harassing those involved in the prosecution at their homes, but by posting on X a photoshopped Fulton County “mug shot” of themselves.
“I stand with President Trump against the commie DA Fani Willis who is nothing more than a political hitman tasked with taking out Biden’s top political opponent,” Greene wrote on X. “‘Persecution, not prosecution.’ #MAGAMugshot.”
To further voice her frustrations, she even changed her X profile picture to her defiant “mugshot.”
I stand with President Trump against the commie DA Fani Willis who is nothing more than a political hitman tasked with taking out Biden’s top political opponent. “Persecution, not prosecution.” #MAGAMugshot pic.twitter.com/BLAJ16g6Je
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) August 24, 2023
Rather than stand with those who see the charges against Trump as an all-out assault on our nation’s Constitution, Steele chose to go on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show and taunt Greene and every member of the party he claims to have represented back when Barack Obama was in the White House, warning the Georgia lawmaker — who Steele inappropriately called, “baby” — that her “turn” could be coming “sooner” than she thinks.
Host Joe Scarborough, whose hatred of Trump has produced some of MSNBC’s most unhinged moments, set the Republican In Name Only up like a bromancing wingman in a smoke-filled dive bar.
“[T]hese lawyers I talk to, again, Republicans and Democrats alike, you know, they say he can pose, he can preen, he can say whatever he wants to say,” Scarborough said. “At the end of the day, the walls aren’t closing in on him. The walls have closed in on him. He’s got 90 indictments. Even his biggest apologists legally have said, even one of those indictments could amount to a life sentence.”
“Yeah. I think that’s all right on point,” Steele enthusiastically agreed. “Look, Joe, we are where we knew we’d be. Once this process started, you know.”
As BizPac Review reported, Trump turned himself into the Fulton County jail on Thursday. Following the ordeal, Trump made an epic return to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and posted the mugshot to the account Elon Musk restored.
‘HE’S BACK’: Trump owns the mug in EPIC return to Twitter, triggers libs https://t.co/YUo8VVXM2K via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) August 25, 2023
By any honest person’s measure, the arrest of a former U.S. president is a historic, potentially explosive event… and then there’s Steele.
“You’ve got people going, ‘oh, this moment,'” he said. “I’m sorry, I factored this moment in a long time ago, because this is the natural course of how it should have gone once you started down the road in these four separate indictments of holding this president accountable.”
“From my view, you know, watching yesterday the motorcades and the security, 80 motorcycles stationed, I’m sitting there going, he lost those privileges the moment this whole thing started to unravel,” Steele continued. “Yet, we still try to keep him elevated on the same level as a Barack Obama or a George Bush… He’s not. He is now an indicted individual. Four times, 91 counts. He’s got a mug shot. He’s got an inmate number. … And so I think the country now has to begin to contextualize all of this.”
“The lawyers you cited are exactly right,” he stated. “The politics on this is exactly clear. We already know, Joe, what the politics is. We’re seeing it play out. Jim Jordan and his ilk are all on defense to protect and block and tackle for Donald Trump, to slow this process. Because in their warped mind, Donald Trump wins next year, come hell or high water.”
“We knew Donald Trump was going to put on a T-shirt. We knew what it is going to say,” Steele said. “He’s going to make his bling off of it. He’s going to get his cash because that’s what it’s always been about.”
“Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to take a mugshot of her,” Steele added. “So don’t worry, baby. Your turn may come sooner than you think.”
In response to Steele’s appearance, those on the salivating left — and a few drooling RINOs — proved once again that they can not meme:
Fixed it pic.twitter.com/q8TKysI9aD
— Jjcool (@ArtForJoyRIF) August 26, 2023
— THE.TRUTH.IS.BLUE (@TheTruthIsBlue) August 26, 2023
— B. D. Tree (@bdcrab) August 26, 2023
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Melissa Fine is the former executive editor of Casino Player, Strictly Slots, and Poker
Digest magazines. She is a UCLA graduate, news junkie, and dedicated Stargate SG-
1 fan. Melissa currently lives with her dog and two cats in a tiny town in the Sierra
Nevada foothills.
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