‘Put His A** in Jail!’ Ex-RNC Chair Michael Steele Tells MSNBC Trump Should Be Locked Up for Attacking Judges

MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele came up with a blunt solution to get Donald Trump to stop attacking the judges and court officials presiding over his cases.

The former Republican National Committee chairman joined Ayman Mohyeldin on Saturday for a segment about Trump’s countless attacks against Judge Arthur Engoron, Special Counsel Jack Smith, and numerous others involved with his various court cases. While Mohyeldin found Trump’s conduct “not surprising,” he asked Steele for his thoughts about the potential “danger” from Trump’s supporters reacting to his incendiary rhetoric.

“It’s enormously dangerous,” Steele said. “I am shocked that we have allowed this to get this far.”

From there, Steele offered his suggestion of how to put an end to Trump’s antics:

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. Attacking clerks, attacking judges, attacking the prosecutors personally, threatening them. We’ve shown the evidence when he does that, how his base responds. And so, the system is getting pulverized from within by Trump, and is being pressed to the umpteeth corner that yit 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. Because you know damn well that if any one of us, if we said half of what Donald Trump has said, we would not be on air tonight. We would be in a jail cell. We would be shut down.

Trump has been placed under a gag order over his attacks against Engoron’s law clerk, and another one pertaining to the case of his allegedly illegal plots to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Trump’s lawyers and federal prosecutors are currently arguing in appeals court about whether the election subversion gag order unfairly infringes on the former president’s free speech rights.

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