'Put his behind in jail': MSNBC host pounces on Trump after new 'unhinged' judge attack

Reacting to a three-part Truth Social post where Donald Trump lashed out at Judges Arthur Engoron, Lewis Kaplan and Juan Merchan on Saturday — calling all three "corrupt" — a visibly frustrated Michael Steele demanded to know why the former president hasn't been jailed for making threats.

Steele, the former head of the Republican National Committee who now co-hosts MSNBC's "The Weekend," claimed that enough is enough after Trump has been on the receiving end of multiple judicial gag orders which he has subsequently ignored.

After co-host Alicia Menendez bluntly called Trump's latest Truth Social diatribe "unhinged," Steele grew aggravated when legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg claimed that the judges were being cautious.

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That led to Steele's outburst.

"What is it that these judges don't get with Donald Trump at this point, with the gag orders, with the imposing of penalties to check his rogue behavior," he began. "I don't get it. The man is now putting out subtle threat warnings to this judge, getting his base — we've already had how many incidents now where rogue members of his base have gone off and done stupid stuff. Nancy Pelosi's husband, et cetera. I don't get it. Tell me, what am I missing? What is America missing that the courts just can't shut this man up?"

After Rosenberg defended the judges' inaction, Steele was still not satisfied.

"I don't know what evidence we need, short of something horrific happening to one of these judges or a member of their family or someone on their staff, that then people will go, 'Oh, maybe we should just put his behind in jail to shut him up,' but that's just my reaction," he fumed.

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