Things got very entertaining as Symone Sanders-Townsend, co-host of “The Weeknight” on MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, had a complete and total raging meltdown live on air about the Trump Administration referring a Deep State leaker for criminal prosecution.
As background, what sparked the meltdown from the woke personality is that Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released documents Monday regarding the investigation by then-Intelligence Community (IC) Inspector General (IG) Michael Atkinson into Trump’s July 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In the document release, Gabbard revealed that not only was it true that the investigation “did not follow standard IG procedures,” but that Atkinson and former CIA employee Eric Ciaramella had shown in egregious fashion how the corrupt Deep State tried to deep-six President Trump. As a result, they were both referred to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution.
Symone Sanders-Townsend lost her mind over that. She began, “Breaking just moments ago, MS NOW has just confirmed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of President Trump and the Inspector General who deemed their complaint credible for possible criminal prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.”
Continuing, the angry MS NOW post insisted that Gabbard was wrong about what the released investigation documents show, saying, “The move comes days after Gabbard released documents alleging a conspiracy behind Trump’s first impeachment. Except folks, the documents prove no such thing.”
Still not done, Sanders-Townsend started ranting, raving, and rambling about the Trump Adminstration trying to undo some of the ridiculous convictions connected to January 6, saying, “Also today, the Justice Department that will review this criminal referral is the same one that just asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who were sentenced for leading far-right extremist groups and attacking the Capitol on January 6th.”
She then explained, regarding why that is a big step and comes in addition to just the pardons of the same people over their role on January 6, “Now Trump had already commuted the sentences of these leaders, but this move will go a step further and erase the convictions.”
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Angrily declaring that prosecuting a lawbreaker in the intelligence establishment is an attack on American elections, Sanders then said, “In both instances, the administration, it is not just trying to sanitize the past, it is laying the groundwork for future efforts to undermine elections, and we need to be very clear about that.”
Watch her lose it here:
President Trump, commenting on what had been revealed about the intelligence establishment, said, “They’re a bunch of crooked people. You’re talking about, with respect to all of the things that they put against me? Well, it’s come out in so many different ways. Thank you very much for that question by the way. I appreciate it.”
Tulsi Gabbard, for her part, said, “And this, along with the politicization of the whistleblower process by a former CIA employee who was working hand in glove with Democrats in Congress, are egregious examples of the deep state playbook on how to weaponize the Intelligence Community.”
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