MSNBC's Jen Psaki fires back at Trump over his 'crazy' threat aimed at her network

Former White House press secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki fired back at Donald Trump on Sunday, mocking his "crazy, unhinged," threat to go after her network in a Truth Social post.

On November 28, the former president raged, "MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Brian Roberts, its Chairman and CEO, is a slimeball who has been able to get away with these constant attacks for years. It is the world’s biggest political contribution to the Radical Left Democrats who, by the way, are destroying our Country. Our so-called 'government' should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity. Much more to come, watch!"

After noting it "sounded just like another one of those crazy, unhinged rants" that Americans have become accustomed to from the four-time indicted, twice impeached former president, she first joked, "He also talked about himself in the third person — always a red flag in my book, and he included his middle initial in that too."

Then she took him to school on how freedom of the press works in the United States.

"Trump is promising to resort to an authoritarian tactic should he become president again," she explained. "Does the federal government have any role in the oversight of a cable news network? No they actually don't. But that's not the point here. What's important is that he's threatening to use the power of the government against media he believes is being critical of him."

"Believe me, I know from experience from many days and hours at the briefing room, that the relationship between the U.S. government and the free press can be tense at times," she explained. "And even both of the presidents I worked for, they had their own moments of unleashing their media critiques when they didn't like a story. And when I think about the role of the free press and how essential it is for our democracy. I also think about my time as a spokesperson for the State Department."

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After recalling her experiences with one critic of the administration's policies, she added, "It's actually a threat to the free press. A threat to democracy. And that threat comes at a time when a record total of 533 journalists are currently detained worldwide ; that's according to Reporters Without Borders. A large number of them are being held by the sorts of authoritarian regimes that Trump envisions creating here at home."

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