MSNBC Interview With Avenatti a ‘Slap in the Face to Ronna McDaniel,’ Protests Vivek Ramaswamy

Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy criticized MSNBC’s interview with convicted felon Michael Avenatti this week, calling it a “slap in the face” to Ronna McDaniel, who was dumped by the network following backlash over her hiring last month.

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld asked Ramaswamy on Wednesday whether Avenatti and former President Donald Trump could team up for a show after Trump publicly thanked his former nemesis on Truth Social.

Ramaswamy replied that if the show were on MSNBC, “it would actually more than triple their viewership,” before adding:

Think about it, the best legal analyst you can get is a lawyer who ended up behind bars. If you think about this, that’s a pretty big slap in the face to Ronna McDaniel. Ronna and I had our differences, but at least she’s not making calls from the prison payphone. And I do think that this guy has been exploitive, but at the same time, irrespective of this man, he makes an obvious point in this country. It’s amazing how your view of a fair trial changes when you’re on the other side of the prison bars.

Ramaswamy argued, “But the reality is, the whole point of Donald Trump’s trials is not that they were supposed to be fair. They were designed to be unfair from the get-go. So if you view this as some kind of technical failure and you wonder what’s going on, if you realize this was the point, this is exactly the system working as it should.”

He concluded, “It has an immune system to one man, trying to do everything in their power to keep him out of the White House.”

Trump thanked Avenatti in a post on Truth Social after the former Stormy Daniels lawyer told MSNBC host Ari Melber he did not believe Trump could get a fair trial in New York.

MSNBC’s decision to interview Avenatti – who is currently serving a 19-year prison sentence for extorting and defrauding his clients – received criticism from many, including former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman, who told Melber immediately after the interview that Avenatti’s word could not be taken.

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