MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace saw part of the “field hearing” held by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and the House Judiciary Committee today in Manhattan, and she summed up the event with two words that perfectly sum up the production: Clown show.
Wallace began by noting that the entire production had been a big gamble that failed badly for Jordan and his GOP colleagues.
“Whether all of this is really what Republicans should be doing with their time even in front of their own viewers and voters they got an authentic New York City welcome today in that they were routinely shouted at in the hallway. Something Jim Jordan could have avoided if he had chosen a different location — like one with higher crime rates if that was his ostensible point today, for instance. Or maybe traveling just south of Jordan’s own district, Columbus, Ohio, perhaps where the crime rate is about three times that of New York City.”
The Manhattan “clown show,” Wallace continued, wasn’t really about crime or trying to solve any real problem that confronts the American people.
“It was about keeping their boss Donald J. Trump happy about showing him, Donald J. Trump, that no political stunt is too idiotic or illogical or unjustified to appease his badly damaged ego.”
New York Times congressional reporter Luke Broadwater agreed, noting, “There were witnesses called by the House Republicans, who, most of them are outspoken critics of Alvin Bragg. Many of them have actually really horror stories. You know, a loved one who was killed in the city or a relative who was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack, things like this. But they have since become outspoken critics of Alvin Bragg. So, they were chosen for those reasons. And that did present some times where Democrats were saying essentially, we feel your pain, we understand your case.”