On her primetime show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow celebrated her far-left colleague Joy Reid’s interview with Hillary Clinton. The two-time failed presidential candidate went on MSNBC to promote anti-Trump conspiracy theories, that were later supported by Maddow and Reid.
After Reid asked one of those what-say-you softballs on the president's Roger Stone commutation, Clinton speculated there was some form of blackmail involved:
HILLARY CLINTON: Well, I think it's pretty clear that Stone threatened him. He probably threatened him privately, but he also threatened him publicly about what he would say if he had to go to prison…. So, what he did was to use the awesome power of commutation as part of the pardon power of the President to basically shut up Roger Stone. So that Roger stone would not spill any more beans about what actually happened and how much Donald Trump actually knew.
Clinton, who has yet to accept the results of the 2016 election, has a long history of corruption, therefore she has no right to describe what she believes to be corrupt. She doesn’t even have the right to discuss pardons, since her husband has a history of corrupt pardons. Clinton has become a continuous proponent of the failed Russian collusion conspiracy theory.
Unsurprisingly, Maddow and Reid gushed over Clinton’s comments on the Trump commutation, and even went further:
MADDOW: I feel like what she's kind of saying there is hearkening back to something from Bill Barr's confirmation hearing where he said if a president commuted somebody’s sentence or pardoned them, based on a promise not to incriminate the President that would be a crime.
REID: Yes.
MADDOW: It's kind of what Clinton is alleging that Trump did here, right?
REID: Well, you know, the words that stood out to me in her answer were two of the people in the conspiracy, so it sounded to me like she does believe that there was a conspiratorial cover-up of what happened to her and to the election and that the implication is that the unindicted co-conspirator, that in her mind is Donald Trump.
After three years of the debunked Russian collusion hoax, the leftist hacks at MSNBC are still pushing it, even though they know the facts aren't on their side. It’s as if Russia has become a buzzword at MSNBC, and anytime it is said, they automatically spew baseless garbage and cling to their shattered Russia-hacked-the-election narrative.
It's amazing that networks like MSNBC so harshly attack Facebook for allowing fact-free misinformation to be shared between Americans, and yet what they often specialize in is fact-free misinformation about Trump, wild speculation and conspiracy theories about what has happened and what will happen.
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Read the full transcript below:
MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show
07/21/2020
9:43 PM ET
RACHEL MADDOW: Joy, let me ask you about -- speaking of Russia -- I want to play a clip of what Secretary Clinton said on your show tonight about commuting the sentence of Roger Stone, and I want you to tell me what you think the implications of this are. Here's the clip.
(CLIP FROM THE REIDOUT INTERVIEW WITH HILLARY CLINTON)
JOY REID (HOST OF THE REIDOUT): I want to give you a chance to respond to the fact that Donald Trump has now commuted the sentence of at least one of the people who was listening, Russia was clearly listening but so was Roger Stone. What do you make of the commutation of his sentence?
HILLARY CLINTON (2016 DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE): Well, I think it's pretty clear that Stone threatened him. He probably threatened him privately, but he also threatened him publicly about what he would say if he had to go to prison. And this is a continuation of the cover-up it's an ongoing cover-up that Trump and Stone are two of the major participants in, to try to prevent us from knowing all of the details about what they actually did in 2016. Some of that was very public I mean, asking Russia in public to interfere in an American election, but some of it was clandestine, behind the scenes, sending messages, the kinds of things that we know about and I think much more. So, what he did was to use the awesome power of commutation as part of the pardon power of the President to basically shut up Roger Stone.
REID: Yeah.
CLINTON: So that Roger stone would not spill any more beans about what actually happened and how much Donald Trump actually knew.
(CUTS BACK TO THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW)
MADDOW: Joy, I mean, that's very pointed comments from her.
REID: Yes.
MADDOW: I feel like what she's kind of saying there is hearkening back to something from Bill Barr's confirmation hearing where he said if a president commuted somebody’s sentence or pardoned them, based on a promise not to incriminate the President that would be a crime.
REID: Yes.
MADDOW: It's kind of what Clinton is alleging that Trump did here, right?
REID: Well, you know, the words that stood out to me in her answer were two of the people in the conspiracy, so it sounded to me like she does believe that there was a conspiratorial cover-up of what happened to her and to the election and that the implication is that the unindicted co-conspirator, that in her mind is Donald Trump.
