Rachel Maddow: “don’t sleep on” the criminal cases that are advancing against Donald Trump

| 10:04 pm EST November 8, 2021
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If the passage of the Biden infrastructure bill was the biggest political news from this past weekend, then the news about the advancing criminal cases against Donald Trump was the second-biggest. District Attorneys in New York and Georgia now appear to be racing each other to see who can complete their criminal cases against Trump first and thus slap the handcuffs on him first. But most of the media is largely ignoring these cases, and is instead still pointing to the (supposed) lack of a federal case against Trump as proof that he’s going to magically get away with it all and win or steal the 2024 election.

Fortunately, Rachel Maddow doesn’t appear interested in playing those games. During her MSNBC show tonight, she seemed to acknowledge the media’s overall lack of coverage of these state level criminal cases when she said “don’t sleep” on them.

Maddow confirmed the news that Fulton County Georgia DA Fani Willis is likely to convene a special grand jury in order to speed up her criminal case against Donald Trump. Maddow also seemed to indirectly push back against the silly media narrative that Trump is on the verge of some kind of comeback, saying that “If you … found that a special grand jury was being convened specifically to look at the evidence in your case, that would probably be a bad day [for you].”

Rachel Maddow cautioned that even the empaneling of a special grand jury is not guaranteed to result in criminal indictment. But the factual reality is that grand juries nearly always bring indictments when prosecutors ask them to. So the reality is that Trump is extremely likely to be indicted and arrested, and the odds of him not being indicted are very small. Thank you Maddow for being one of the few in the mainstream media to acknowledge this reality.