MSNBC host Rachel Maddow shocks The View with wild Supreme Court claim

By Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com 06:39 19 Jun 2024, updated 13:31 19 Jun 2024

Liberal cable news host Rachel Maddow sent shockwaves through The View on Tuesday with her criticism of the Supreme Court and a call on Chief Justice John Roberts to 'save the legal system.' 

Maddow, a well-known advocate against Donald Trump and conservatives, joined the daily gabfest and was asked about the behavior of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

Thomas, who has come under criticism for failing to disclose gifts from businessman Harlan Crow, finally acknowledged some of the pricey gifts he accepted from the billionaire amid left-wing rage.

Alito angered Democrats after an upside down American flag was flown at his home after the Capitol riot on January 6, which he later claimed was his wife's decision. 

Maddow called both out for being 'flagrantly corrupt' and demanded that Roberts do something about it, surprising show co-host Sunny Hostin.

'The blatant corruption of a couple of these Supreme Court justices is John Roberts' problem. He is the chief justice, he has to police it to save his court and to save the legal system,' she said. 

Co-host Joy Behar said it was 'iffy' that Roberts would act. 

She then believed that if corruption were to occur at liberal MSNBC, it would be dealt with.

Maddow asked: 'I work at MSNBC. If there was a member of my family lobbying the White House chief of staff, saying, 'overturn this election result,' you think they'd let me cover that election result, let alone give a binding judicial ruling on that election result?'

The host was referring to Thomas' wife Ginni, who texted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows trying to get him to challenge the results of the 2020 election. 

She also argued that the Supreme Court gave Trump effective immunity 'because they've already delayed things so long that the stuff that he did in 2020, he's not going to be tried for before he potentially gets back in the White House.'

Maddow, the face of MSNBC for well over a decade, recently made headlines by suggesting Trump will put her in an internment camp in the event he is reelected.

In an interview with CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcey published in Monday's Reliable Sources newsletter, Maddow was asked about her concerns about being personally victimized by the Trump administration if he is to be winner of the 2024 presidential election.

'Trump and his allies are openly talking about weaponizing the government to seek revenge against critics in media and politics, with some of his extremist allies even talking about jailing their fellow Americans,' said Darcy. 'You're one of his most notable critics on television. Are you worried that you could be a target?'

Maddow replied: 'I'm worried about the country broadly if we put someone in power who is openly avowing that he plans to build camps to hold millions of people, and to 'root out' what he's described in subhuman terms as his 'enemy from within.' 

'Again, history is helpful here. He's not joking when he says this stuff, and we've seen what happens when people take power proclaiming that kind of agenda.'

'I think there's a little bit of head-in-the-sand complacency that Trump only intends to go after individual people he has already singled out. Do you really think he plans to stop at well-known liberals?

'It also seems pretty clear that some people in politics might think they'll be on the safe side — that they might even benefit from it — if they side with Trump. Ask Mike Pence about how that works out in the end.

'When Trump invokes the Insurrection Act to deploy the U.S. military against civilians on his first day in office, do you think he then rescinds the order on day two?

She continued, 'For that matter, what convinces you that these massive camps he's planning are only for migrants? So, yes, I'm worried about me — but only as much as I'm worried about all of us.'

Maddow, a well-known advocate against Trumps's presidential campaign, said back in August that she fears Trump would become 'president for life,' in other words a dictator, if he clenches a second term in the White House. 

She has railed against Trump since he was first elected in 2016, with her flabbergasted reaction to his victory over Hillary Clinton one of the defining media moments of that election.