Chris Hayes Nails It: 'We Watched Him Do It On Television'
MSNBC's Chris Hayes weighed in after former President Donald Trump was indicted for the third time on Tuesday along with six unindicted co-conspirators. Hayes said what most of us are thinking. The thrice-indicted President was criming around publicly for quite a while, and it has been mentally exhausting watching him get away with crapping all over our country. We watched the Jan. 6th insurrection unfold live on television.
"Like, if this wasn't a crime, nothing is a crime," Hayes said. "We watched him do it on television. We sat at this desk a year ago at the January 6th committee. We knew what he was doing."
"If that is not a crime, then nothing is a crime," he continued. So that part of it is just like, I find really important and gratifying."
"This, yes, yes, of course, this was corrupt," Hayes said. Of course, this was fraud. Of course, it was a conspiracy to defraud the US. We all saw him engage in the conspiracy to defraud the US."
"The second thought I had, it's just about the magnitude of this moment, which I think is just worth taking a second on," he continued. "I mean, with Donald Trump, lots of things are unprecedented. The first time he was indicted, it was unprecedented. And the second time he was indicted, it was unprecedented because a federal indictment had never come down."