A legal expert warned President Donald Trump on Tuesday night that his latest "galling" outburst may have just become his "Joseph McCarthy moment."
On Monday, Trump was asked by a reporter on Air Force One about the Jeffrey Epstein files. Trump snapped at the reporter and said, "Quiet, Piggy."
Joyce Vance, a law professor at the University of Alabama and MSNBC contributor, responded to Trump's comments in a new Substack essay.
"It’s particularly galling that the president’s response to a legitimate question about the matter is 'Quiet Piggy,'" Vance wrote.
"I keep coming back to the Joseph McCarthy moment where the red-baiting senator was finally asked, 'Have you no decency,' and his cult of personality burst," she continued. “'Quiet, Piggy.' We shouldn’t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment."
"At a time when women were fighting for justice, the man who cut himself out of the investigation into wrongdoing had that to say about a woman who was simply trying to do her job," she added.
"The files have to be released, no excuses," she added. "It’s time to emulate the great Miss Piggy, who has never stayed quiet in the face of those who don’t respect her."