'Trump is acting incredibly shady': MSNBC guest dragging Dems into Epstein mess shot down
An attempt by an MSNBC guest to pin blame for the growing public distrust with both parties on how Jeffrey Epstein partner Ghislaine Maxwell is being treated was swiftly shot down on Saturday morning.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Lindsey Williams Drath, CEO of Andrew Yang's Forward Party, was asked about the battle to get convicted human trafficker Maxwell to testify before members of Congress and she used the opportunity to bash both parties.
Drath was prompted by co-host Jonathan Capehart about the movement of Maxwell to a "Club Fed," as he asked, "How are the American people supposed to believe anything that's coming out of the administration, let alone the president's mouth?"
'Well, I think, Jonathan, this isn't just this administration," Drath, a former RNC official, replied. "This is government in general right now. Earlier in the year, you know, we saw polls saying that 70 percent of Americans believed that government was fundamentally corrupt and what happens here is that, when you see selective accountability, that's when trust erodes in the American people."
Going on to detail plans by both parties to depose Maxwell she made the point, "When you see when Congress does exactly what it's supposed to do on behalf of the American people, and there's ambiguity about the sequencing, that's when trust is eroding. That's why you're seeing 10,000 people every day leaving the Republican and Democratic parties. This isn't a partisan issue; this is a fundamental issue. This is a fundamental issue of trust in our institutions of government. and that's why at the Forward Party, we're calling for full transparency and accountability here."
Occasional MSNBC co-host Sam Stein, who grimaced while she talked, wasn't having it and pointed out the elephant in the room as far as voters are concerned.
"Yeah. Well, I mean, I think trump's acting incredibly shady around this stuff, to be honest with you," he shot back. "And I think that's part of the problem. So while I do take your point about trust in parties, the fact is this man ran on, you know, producing documents exposing these lies and now he's acting in a way that suggests that he has something to hide."
"I don't know how he gets out from under this without full transparency," he added.
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