On Wednesday night, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle and her 11th Hour guests cobbled the recent prosecution against former FBI Director James Comey into a larger conspiracy President Trump supposedly has against the First Amendment.
The discussion was based on an NBC News article covering a letter signed by over 40 retired state and federal judges condemning Trump for targeting his political enemies. The letter failed to mention that Comey was indicted over lying to and obstructing the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Ruhle threw an easy lay-up, but political commentator Hagar Chemali did not take the bait:
RUHLE: Hagar, a lot of people might not care about the Jim Comey prosecution, but does this explain why they should?
CHEMALI: It is, I think — listen. When I read this article, to me, at first I really had to figure out, why? What was the connection being made on free speech? Because given if you look at the indictment […] when I was reading that, I was looking through, the thing that struck out at me was how much he and his deputy kept trying to place things in the news, and didn't try to place things in the news. And this is not, in my experience in government, that's not something the law enforcement guys really do.
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