Behind the migrant crackdown that sparked protests in Los Angeles was a message to federal agents from the architect of President Trump’s immigration agenda: “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.” Separately, we found that members of Congress and their families made hundreds of stock trades as markets tanked in the wake of Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. Two lawmakers who have called for stock-trading bans in the past reported the most transactionsMSNBC star Rachel Maddow repeatedly accused Donald Trump of “panicking” in his response to the anti-ICE raids that have exploded in Los Angeles and now spread across the country, claiming the president has “no freaking idea” how to deal with the fallout politically.
At the same time, she appeared to urge her viewers to take part in demonstrations against the administration, saying that “protests work” while highlighting the anti-Trump “No Kings” movement that has grown in recent days.
“The most important story of our time is this one,” she confidently stated. “What is this country going to allow him to do? This is an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the US Constitution and the US government. The attempted imposition of a dictatorial regime... the question is whether it will work.”
With the president now doubling the number of National Guard soldiers to Los Angeles while also deploying a contingent of 700 Marines as the demonstrations against the administration’s immigration raids have raged for five days, Maddow kicked off her primetime show on Monday by claiming Trump’s actions are only making opposition to him stronger.
“As of Saturday night, Trump had started fulminating against the protests in Los Angeles. He had announced that he would federalize the National Guard, the first time a president has done that, against the wishes of a state’s governor, in 60 years,” the progressive host noted. “And when it was done 60 years ago, it was to protect civil rights protesters, not to threaten protesters with military force. But, you know, Trump panicking like that, the response of the American people to it has been exactly what you’d think.”
