‘Dangerously and Perniciously Racist!’ MSNBC Legal Analyst Makes Wild Claim About Trump’s Criticism of Biden DOJ

While discussing what possible sentence former President Donald Trump could face on July 11 following his hush money trial conviction, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin called one of Trump’s conspiratorial claims about the case “factually false” while making an incendiary claim of her own.

During the conversation on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Rubin said she believed Trump could face some sort of incarceration and pointed to all the circumstances surrounding the ex-president’s behavior during the trial. But it was the head-scratching theory that Rubin made at the end that was noteworthy — that Trump’s claims that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department was “pulling Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg’s strings” were racist:

If you look at the messaging both during the trial and thereafter, he is definitely trying to rile up his base with the possibility of some form of term of incarceration. And in terms of how he’s talking, he is continuing to push a narrative that, as I’ve written and others have, is extraordinarily dangerous — tying the current president to the prosecution in Manhattan by somehow alleging that the Biden administration, and specifically the Department of Justice, was pulling Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg’s strings.

How? Through a career civil litigator named Matthew Colangelo, who was part of the D.A.’s team, but certainly not its head. For a variety of reasons, that narrative makes no sense. It is factually false. And it’s also dangerously and pernicious racist because it assumes that D.A. Alvin Bragg, who is Black, could not have executed this prosecution on his own without the supervision of a bunch of white elders.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.

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