Donald Trump defenders have railed against the FBI after federal agents searched Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort to investigate stolen classified documents, and MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski was disgusted by their reaction.
During Tuesday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Brzezinski accused GOP lawmakers of fanning the flames of violence from Trump’s extremist base.
“We are keeping tabs on the fallout from the search online, including growing concerns over the reaction from possible right-wing extremists,” she said while showing a top comment on a pro-Trump online forum using the phrase “lock and load.” Others made references to “civil war.”
Brzezinski condemned lawmakers like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for encouraging violent action with their social media posts.
“Trump supporters are also posting upside-down flags across social media to signal a distress call, including this post from a sitting Republican congresswoman in Georgia,” Brzezinski said. “It’s just putrid, it’s putrid what these people are doing, whatever, but not whatever because we all saw what happened on Jan. 6.”
She added: “For Trump to come out and say he was sieged and make it sound like doors were broken down, he is rallying the base. He is being the martyr, he is making himself the victim, when he is not the victim. Putting that all aside, how important might it be, what the FBI was looking for, for them to actually walk on the grounds of Mar-A-Lago, peacefully, they did call the Secret Service, who has to protect Donald Trump, and let them know they were coming. It was peaceful, but it was an FBI search and documents were removed.”
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