That feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.
Rachel Maddow
Pundit
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February 16, 2026
Happy Presidents' Day, Philadelphia. You are getting your history put back up by court order at the President's House.
— Rachel Maddow
I will tell you it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we’ve got two—count them, two—non-white hosts in prime time, both of our non-white hosts in prime time are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. And that…
I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two—count them, two—nonwhite hosts in prime time, both of our nonwhite hosts in prime time are losing their shows.
Perverting U.S. law enforcement for political means is arguably illegal, definitely wrong and can’t go unpunished.
The Justice Department has to fix this because the American public has to believe that it’s an incorruptible institution.
To whatever extent the Donald Trump White House was trying to use those paramilitary groups to their purpose, trying to use them as a physical force that will be need to physically blocked a finalization of the election results.
We'd be charged with quote every crime imaginable if the White House staff in any way facilitated Trump himself, going to Congress going up to the Capitol Building to try to stop the count that day.
The chairman of the January 6th committee says that the upcoming hearings, witnesses will describe conversations between these paramilitary groups that led the breach of the capitol and people in the orbit of that President Trump.
The paramilitary groups are providing physical attacks, physical intimidation, to reinforce political attacks.
This makes three now, three members of the so-called Proud Boys, who have pled guilty.
This group is a renamed version of one of the white nationalist groups that took part in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017.