Reacting to Donald Trump reposting a threat from one of his followers calling for the citizen's arrest of Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James on his Truth Social account, former RNC chair Michael Steele told an MSNBC host the time has come to arrest and jail the former president.
Speaking with host Ayman Mohyeldin about yet another attack by the former president on the judge and AG, Steele bluntly stated, "Put his ass in jail," to send the former president a message.
In total, Steele exclaimed, "It's enormously dangerous. I just— I'm shocked that we have allowed this to get this far. I'm just going to use my best analysis that I can give you at this point on this situation with Trump, and the attacks on the judges: put his ass in jail. That's how you end it. That's how it stops."
"Now, yeah, people will be mad, they will be upset. but there is no other person on this planet, certainly not in this country, who would be given the kind of grace that Donald Trump has been given to run his mouth the way he has," he continued. "Attacking the clerks, attacking the judges, attacking the prosecutors, personally, threatening them."
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"We've shown the evidence when he does that how his base responds," he elaborated. "And so the system is getting pulverized from within by Trump, and is being pressed to the umpteenth corner that it can go in trying to appease him, and allow him to be free while he is still behaving this way. "
"So, if he wants to continue in this vein, then use the system the way the system would be used against all of us on the show right now," he suggested. "Because you know damn well, any one of us, if we said half of what he said, we would not be on air tonight. We would be in a jail cell. We would be shut down."
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