MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace is sick and tired of waiting for someone (anyone!) to hand down a criminal indictment against failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, and she’s reached the end of her rope, wanting to know when the ex-president will finally be held accountable for his many crimes.
Speaking with former FBI agent Peter Strzok on “Deadline: White House,” Thursday, Wallace expressed her frustration, which led Strzok to cite recent poll numbers that show Fox News has seen a substantial decrease in the viewers who believe the Fox lies about the 2020 election being stolen.
“That’s the kind of thing I don’t understand. If you go to the 23 percent of Republicans are out there, or whatever the number is, say, hey, let’s lay down all these photographs from the hospital. Is this something you support? Because I don’t know how anybody with a straight face can say ‘Aw, yeah, you know, that’s all right.’ Because it flies in the face of logic. I think what we’re seeing here is people who aren’t thinking too deeply about what occurred. Who are watching Tucker Carlson and all these peaceful protesters by picking two minutes out of hundreds of thousands of hours of coverage and aren’t chalking or being presented with the truth of what occurred.”
Wallace then turned to former acting assistant attorney general for national security Mary McCord and asked why none of the top officials have yet been charged for the Capitol insurrection, to which McCord replied:
“All indications are that that is what is happening. That’s the investigation that Jack Smith has taken over. We certainly know from reporting that there have been a number of people very close to the former president who have been subpoenaed in recent weeks and months it appears that some of those people are not cooperating. It’s also been reported that Jack Smith sought the assistance — or sought an appeal to the chief judge in D.C. for her help.”
McCord added that she shares Wallace’s frustration that the Justice Department hasn’t done anything yet.
“But I will say, it’s not unusual in a case of this nature,” said McCord. “I say this nature. There’s nothing of this nature that I experienced in my more than 23 years in the department. But a case of this magnitude, it does take some time. The records are voluminous. And getting the right evidence — if the department is going to indict a former president, they want it to be locked up solid.”
