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TRUMP RACHEL MADDOW Jack Cocchiarella: Trump ATTACKS RACHEL MADDOW In Midnight Meltdown! Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8PDWcfVmlM Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Rachel Maddow is a great analyst ... I wish I had more time to view and comment on her material! Peter Burgess
Trump ATTACKS Rachel Maddow In Midnight MELTDOWN! Jack Cocchiarella Jan 25, 2025 279K subscribers ... 52,204 views ... 11K likes Political commentator Jack Cocchiarella reacts to Donald Trump's angry truth social attack on Rachel Maddow. Connect with me on Instagram: / jdcocchiarella Connect with me on Twitter: https://x.com/JDCocchiarella Transcript 0:00 Donald Trump always has some reason to be angry some complaint he just has to get out some grievance the poor baby just has to share and last night in a midnight meltdown which is pretty usual for Donald Trump he decided to set his sights on Rachel mattow who has been delivering scathing reports on this despicable first week of the Trump Administration and obviously that's gotten under Donald's skin because he was attacking Rachel madow and Absol Ely melting down and we are going to get into it all but before we do if I could quickly ask you to leave a like on this video and if you haven't already and you enjoy our channel to hit that subscribe button it goes a long way and it really means the world to me now before we get into Donald Trump's midnight meltdown we have to check out what spurred it on and it was an interview with Rachel madow and former prosecutor Ashley Acres talking about Donald Trump's Pardons and I want to get into it right here from a justice department sentencing memo that was filed in court last year quote defendant Christopher Joseph quagan was 1:02 among the most violent of the January 6 riers he viciously assaulted numerous officers in this court convicted him of six counts of assault two counts of robbery obstruction of the Congressional certification vote and other offenses on at least a dozen occasions he stood face to face with officers as he screamed at pushed with outstretched arms punched swatted and slapped officers pushed bik racks into officers and even choked one officer to the ground he used his body as a battering R and employed a stolen police riot shield against the officers in an attempt to force his way into the building he sprayed several officers directly in the face with chemical irritant he joined the collective mob pushes against the police line in total he was on Capital grounds wreaking havoc for more than three hours due to his egregious criminal conduct on January 6th his refusal to accept responsibility and the need to deter him and others from further wrongdoing the government recommends that the court sentence him to 168 months of 2:02 incarceration that sentencing memo was written from a written by a justice department prosecutor whose name is Ashley acres and the Trump appointed judge who heard that case and considered that memo agreed and sentenced the defendant to a dozen years in prison just shy of what the prosecutors had asked for now less than a year after that he's out and one of the last things Ashley akres did as a prosecutor for the US Department of Justice ice was submit filings to dismiss charges against defendants in cases she spent years building dismiss the charges because these people have been now pardoned by Donald Trump I say that's one of the last things she did for the US justice department because after more than seven years as a federal prosecutor and involvement in many January 6 cases Ashley Acres left the US justice department today she's here tonight for her first television interview since leaving her post Miss Acres thanks very much much for being here thanks for 3:00 having me thanks for your service you're welcome after seven years of the justice department did you want to leave um no I I suppose yes because I left um but it you know it the circumstances came uh in a way that I didn't expect yeah um what is it like to have worked on so many of these January 6 cases I understand that you uh may have had as as as many if not more January 6 trials as any prosecutor in the department what is it like to have all of that work and all of those cases and all of those convictions and all of those sentences wiped Away by the president um it was appalling really I think that the pardons that happened uh were disturbing they were disturbing for a number of reasons they were disturbing because it condones the violence that you just described and that the prosecutors on the team have been describing for years in court it 4:01 condones that and this wasn't ordinary violence as as you described earlier the police officers who were testifying in trials for years talked about this being the scariest day of their lives they didn't know if they were going to come home they talked about this being a mideval battle scene and not only does it condone violence against those Law Enforcement Officers but it undermines the rule of law and as judges in our court have continually repeated that the Cornerstone of our democracy is the peaceful transition of power from one Administration to the next and the crimes that were pardoned from January 6 were crimes that disrupted that peaceful transition of power the way these pardons were handed down blanket Pardons and commutations without regard to criminal records without regard to the specific crimes that were charged here without regard to level of violence without regard to anything else anything dis different potentially differenti about these cases 5:01 does that increase the threat that you were talking about a reason I ask is because I think politically it's being greeted not just as a favor to these individuals but essentially it's being greeted as a an attempted Vindication of what they did not just an eraser of any accountability for it but in effect a celebration of what they did are you worried about that I'm worried Rachel because Donald Trump pardoned some very very dangerous people rioter who Point Blank beer sprayed officers in the face riers who beat police officers with a baseball bat a hockey stick a hammer uh a chair leg protruding with nails um riers who brought Firearms to the capital on January 6th expecting violence riers who choked officers to the ground who gouged their eyes so I don't know what's going to happen but but um is America safer 6:01 today after these pardons uh certainly not are you worried about FBI agents and justice department personnel and prosecutors such as yourself being personally targeted by the people who have just been pardoned and had their sentences commuted I think any prosecutor would say that that is a risk that comes uh with the job and I hope not and I hope that these people who are pardoned and G given a second chance um take it um but the WR online the rhetoric from these people that the president pardoned uh doesn't suggest that that's true um and this rhetoric has held true before January 6th um during January 6th and after uh and it's dangerous there is more of that great interview that we are going to get into but obviously you can tell why Donald Trump would be so upset by it why he would be so inflamed by Rachel madow doing what telling the truth calling out how Despicable it is for Donald Trump to 7:00 pardon, 1500 cop beating January 6th insurrectionist and and more so than just the pardons it's the signal that it will continue to send to any magga Maniac any one of Donald Trump's many cultists who now feel empowered to go commit political violence on his behalf which he's always encouraged knowing that Donald Trump will probably pardon them if they do those January 6 insurrectionists now threatening the police officers who def defended our capital on that day it is disgraceful it's sad and it's why Donald Trump's so upset why he posted this on Truth social Trump wrote late last night wow Rachel mattow has horrible ratings she'll be off the air very soon MSNBC is close to death CNN has reached the bottom this is a good thing they are the enemy of the people now we've heard so much punditry from the Press about how Democrats are always exaggerating the things that Donald Trump says we blowing them out of 8:01 proportions oh Democrats oh they're just so oh it's too much are we serious we can't say that Donald Trump saying that Rachel madow is the enemy of the people doesn't mean something different now like I said a bit ago when he is already excused accepted and pardoned political violence on his behalf what is that an instruction to do Donald Trump calling Rachel matow the enemy of the people when he said it about Mike Pence uh we saw what happened we remember it was on television pretty clear pictures thousands hours of footage that Donald Trump wants gone that's scary that's the instruction that Donald Trump is is given to his to his cultist we have to take it seriously we do and it's why Rachel madow is doing such a great job calling it out and the reason I want to get into more of that interview so of the president's pardon I mean the problem here is that means that if you 9:00 committed an offense for which you plad guilty or were convicted on January 6th that under what I mean what you just described would imply that the justice department under Donald Trump their new position is that any crime that could conceivably described as derivative from something that happened on January 6th even if it is cutting off an ankle bracelet even if it is you know harboring illegal silencers or explosives or other weapons or all these things that people get all of those things expunged that there's no way to prosecute them for any derivative or non-derivative crimes I don't know if the Department's going to go that far but the evidence that we have now based on the the filings of the department are there are two cases where the department is moving to dismiss in its entirety uh defendants cases who have fled uh the FBI and the Court's Jurisdiction the justice department um people who work at the justice department staff of the department um 10:00 and staffers sort of at all levels um have been given a bit of a shock to the system not just with the change in leadership this week um but also with I think what were some unexpected decisions one of which related to the doj honors program um you came to doj in the first place through the honors program can you explain what that is and and what's just happened to that program yeah it's devastating um what happened to the program was I believe it was yesterday all doj honors hires recent hires uh were sent a uh somewhat crude email um informing them that they were no longer uh going to be hired at the department although they had already these people already had an offer already been hired they had for went Law Firm recruiting they haven't been interviewing they have jobs at the Department of Justice or at least an offer of a job they expected anticipated to work there uh and they were told uh this week that they they no longer should expect that um it's devastating one of the only ways to come in to the Department of Justice as a young lawyer 11:01 is through the honors program it's an incredibly prestigious program it's hard to get in the people who come in are very bright attorneys and so for those attorneys top of their class have all the awards have all the credentials decided not to go to a law firm decided not to make all the money um they wanted to be public servants and they were hired as such and um now unfortunately they're going to have to find something else we're also seeing um senior career staffers at the justice department including people who have been seen as sort of the infrastructure of the department in terms of some of the way some of the most complex areas of the law work um essentially shunted into um all all seemingly into the same office where they're all being told they're now going to work on Prosecuting Sanctuary cities or something um going after local jurisdictions that have proclaimed themselves um to be opposed to the administration's approach to immigration law law enforcement um what 12:01 do you think the impact of that will be the the the intention seems to be to try to make all of those Senior People quit it that seems to be the intention I think on the ground in this last week what it's done is it's just terrified people um everyone is worried if they're going to be fired or moved uh if the goal was to make the department more efficient I think this had the contrary effect this is an incredibly frightening time when we see this capitulation from the mainstream press although there are those who are not doing so Folks at MSNBC doing a great job but CNN ABC CBS pending the need to Donald Trump refusing to give the coverage that is deserved how Despicable the beginning of his administration is obviously the corporate the billionaire class all bending the knee giving Donald Trump whatever he wants CEOs of information platforms making sure those algorithms are nice and catered to Donald Trump but it's the that controls the media that controls 13:02 the information CEOs Donald Trump took them back pocket but it's liberals okay I'm not going to buy that and we're going to call it out every single day on the show and if you want to support that as always you can hit that subscribe button you can leave a like on this video and if you stuck around at the end drop a blue 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