On this new hour, blood bath at the rnc. With his sisterinlaw in charge, trump solidifies his grip on the Republican National committee with massive layoffs. Could the hostile takeover backfire . And how his team is plotting to campaign from the courtroom. And my thoughts on this weeks speech from Senator Schumer sending shock waves to israel and why i believe it came 30,000 lives too late. Im ayman mohyeldin. Lets do it. This week it was extremely maga makeover rnc edition. After locking in the republican president ial nomination, donald trump has now set his sights on remaking the Republican National committee in his own image. On monday, the disgraced expresident timed his grip on the party further, using his newly installed rnc leadership team, which includes his daughterinlaw, to push out dozens of officials at the committee. More than 60 employees got the pink slip, including five members of the senior staff. Trumps rnc also began implementing a complete overhaul of the committees election operations. That includes shutting down all centers for minorities nationwide in california, new york, north carolina, tax. It was part of a Yearslong Effort by the rnc to encourage black, latino, Native American and asian voters to join the Republican Party. With that operation now gone, a source told the daily beast the new committees new tagline may as well be make the rnc white again. It scrapped the gops plans to encourage mailin voting, shuttering the bank your vote program. Instead of Motivating Americans to vote for their candidate, the rnc has actually now chosen to double down on its electionrelated lawfare with trumps rnc establishing a socalled Election Integrity unit, led by christina baugh. The rnc is diverting funds from outreach and towards legal efforts that undercut our system and make it harder for americans to vote regardless of party. Look, im no campaign expert, but this seems like exactly the opposite of what a party should be focusing on in a critical election year. Under trumps eye, the gop has proved time and time again it is not a Serious Party focused on actually winning elections or promoting democracy. Instead, it is merely an extension of the expresident s personal operation focused on avenging his grievances. While trump enjoys an almost unprecedented level of control over the national apparatus, quote, republicans willingness to bow to trump on nearly every issue is making their party staggeringly unpopular with voters. Case in point, colorado republican Congressman Ken Buck stunned capitol hill on tuesday, because buck, who already indicated he would not seek reelection in the fall shocked his colleagues by announcing he would leave his post next week. In an interview after the announcement, buck took aim directly at the expresident , remarking, quote, Everywhere I Go in colorado i hear that people are not happy with trump. Now, remember, this isnt some middleoftheroad republican. Buck is a member of the ultra conservative House Freedom caucus. Its a question of allegiance or fealty and what it means to be a republican in Donald Trumps gop. The disgraced expresident has now become the sole decider of who does and does not fit inside his partys evershrinking tent. With us is rick wilson. Also with us, hayes brown. Great to have both of you with us. Rick, trump allies told politico that the rnc overhaul is aimed at cutting socalled bureaucracy at the committee level. Ive got to say this doesnt seem like the expresident is in this for promoting democracy or trying to rebuild a healthy Republican Party. Its just the expresident exercising his complete control over the apparatus of the Republican Organization to exploit it for his own purposes, no . Absolutely. What theyve done is basically like a Mafia Bust Out where they take over a business, they run up its bills so they can never be paid, and when theyre done they burn the place down for the insurance money. Youve seen the rnc fire their research staff, the communications staff, the political staff, the outreach staff. Theyve ended all the early voting programs, bank your vote programs, vote by mail programs. Whats left is to put money into the trump crime family and ship it off to trump. This is now not a political party. It is a Shell Corporation set up to fund Donald Trumps legal defenses. And it is burning down 30 years whether you agree with the Republican Party or not, for 30 years theyve built a machine that wins a lot of elections. Now trump has burned that to the ground for money. Look, even if somebody whos not a republican doesnt care for the Republican Party, you need a Healthy Party apparatus to have a functioning democracy in america. With that gone, youre left with just one real party and a Shell Corporation. The other part of this is how much of this moment, of this exercise is a glimpse into the future if donald trump wins, Foreshadowing What donald trump would do to the American Government if, in fact, he, his cronies, his kids, his children, everyone where in power once again . The the mystery of jared and ivanka while they were working in government, having their net worth increase by hundreds of millions of dollars, the mystery of Jared Kushner getting a 2 billion Venture Capital deal the second he was out the door from the white house, trumps willingness to turn nato into a payforplay protection racket. The grift and the autocracy and the basically converting the u. S. Government into a giant scam for trump is a preview of what we will see day one. It should not surprise anyone. This has always been a guy who, if he found a dollar on the floor of a bathroom and had to pick it up with his mouth, hed do it. This guy wants money more than anything else in the world. The rnc is now fully embracing trumps election lies. Theyve established this socalled Election Integrity unit led by Christina Bobb, who wrote a book pushing the big lie. How dangerous is it to have a figure like that on the committees payroll . I mean, first of all, im so old that i remember the 2012 autopsy in the rnc when after mitt romney lost to barack obama, the rnc said down and said how do we expand . How do we get more people to vote for us . Ive watched as every recommendation in that autopsy has been put to the side in favor of just making sure donald trump is happy and making sure he is able to endorse your candidates even if his endorsement doesnt mean that much. The fact that the rnc is putting someone like Christina Bobb into this position is really stressing how much theyve decided to go to leave the actual job of connecting with voters to democrats. The fact that they dont really see much of a purpose in trying to convince people to vote for them at this point, basically their entire argument boils down to he is not a democrat, he is trump, thats it. As long as someone is not a democrat and supports trump, that is the basis for getting support of the rnc at this point. Putting Christina Bobb in this position is sure to really tank any outreach efforts, any sort of real Election Integrity work, making sure people can get to ballots and cast their vote, that is not going to happen. To quote succession these are not serious people put in these positions. I want to play for you this sound from trump today at a rally. We try to avoid playing any trump sound, but this was particularly vile. He was railing about the impact of President Bidens policies on the automotive industry. Then he made this very bizarre remark. Listen. If i dont get elected, its going to be a blood bath for the country. That will be the least of it. So, you know, the Trump Campaign has since said his remarks were referring to bidens policies surrounding imported cars. Im not sure i believe that, but nonetheless well take them at their word for it. What do you make of that type of rhetoric where he is using that kind of language in this election season already . Lets not forget this is a man who sent a violent mob to hang his Vice President. Right. This is a man who has embraced a number of the violent groups that support him, the oath keepers, 3 ers, proud boys, all those folks. The old joke of you have to take trump seriously but not literally, thats a mistake. You must take trump literally. Thats the one Campaign Promise i think you can guarantee trump will keep, that there will be bloodshed if he doesnt get his way. Its something americans will have to reckon with and understand sooner than later that when trump is making these threats, there are millions and millions of his supporters who dont look at it as a rhetorical flourish or a funny remark, they look at it as marching orders. Its incumbent upon everyone in the country, including a lot of republican Elected Officials who will not, but should decry this kind of rhetoric. I believe donald trump when he says hell be a dictator from day one, unleash the military on protesters, use the Insurrection Act and a lot more. Weve also heard in this Rally Trump Ratcheting up his antiimmigrant rhetoric on the topic of immigrants accused of committing crimes. He said, quote, i dont know if you call them people. In some cases, theyre not people, in my opinion. Hes not just referring to those that are committing crimes. Hes trying to use that to paint an entire group of people the way he did when he came down that escalator announcing his run for the first time where he called Mexicans Raists and killers. Theres been no sort of consequences for donald trump using this kind of rhetoric, not that weve seen for him personally electorally. Yes, he did lose in 2020, but the fact he has swept through these primaries even with the amount of opposition weve seen from republican primary voters continually voting for nikki haley or trying to get someone else in the mix, trump is continuing to double down on this rhetoric, having had no real pushback from anyone in any position to check him. He didnt have any pushback from the rnc. They continue to fund his campaign in 2016 and 2020 and now. He had no pushback from his fellow Elected Officials or at least very little pushback from them, those who remain in office at least. You mentioned ken buck earlier stepping down. Part of the transformation were seeing in the Republican Party is the ones like buck who are unable to take the chaos anymore and stepping aside, what im worried about is who is going to step up to replace them . Who is going to be in the hall of congress, and what are they going to be willing to let trump get away with . Panel, please stick around. After the break, how team trump is not objecting to campaigning from the courtroom. First, my friend Richard Louis is here with a Breaking News update. Breaking news from new jersey to tell you about. Police saying a triple murder suspect is in custody after a multistate hourslong manhunt. He started this morning near philadelphia. Suspect andre gordon shot and killed his stepmother and 13yearold sister. Then he drove to a nearby home where he shot and killed a woman, the mother of their two children. After that, he carjacked someone in a store parking lot, drove to nearby trenton, new jersey. There he held multiple hostages inside a home. 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Nbc news now reports trump advisors plan to counter his heavy trial schedule by trying to portray President Biden as someone attempting to, quote, imprison his political opponents. A rather hypocritical approach by the very man who made lock her up a mantra of his 2016 campaign. Trumps campaign also plans to muddy the waters between trumps and bidens legal proms, create Counter Programming Events focused on policy and push to delay the trials as long as possible. The question is, will it work . Even those carrying out the plan arent sure. Indictments are not ideal, we would rather he not be in court, but there will be an attempt to make lemonade out of lemons here, republicans say. Is this Turning Lemons into lemonade like trumps team is arguing here . Is it likely to work . Or it doesnt matter for his voters . They like a criminal and hes leaning into it. They do like a criminal. They enjoy the image of trump as some sort of martyr. Everyone whos influenced by that decision by the campaign to do this is already a trump voter. Anyone who believes that trump is some sort of martyr at the hands of the nefarious Biden Campaign or administration is already a trump voter. For the rest of american voters, there is no amount of mayonnaise in the universe to turn this chicken you know what into chicken salad. This is a desperate strategy by desperate people. I dont think its going to convince a single swing voter or move a single democrat over to trump, especially because what they seem to forget is we will be hearing the evidence of trumps ongoing pattern of criminality every single day. It wont just be, oh, theyre mean to me, what about hunters laptop . It will be talking about donald trump illegally stealing classified documents. It will be talking about trump engaging in fraud. It will be talking about donald trump engaging in malfeasance at all levels. Look, it plays to their base, but their base is already in trumps pocket. To that point, the republicans are doing their part. You also have trumps team saying part of this Campaign Strategy is to counter the democrats line of attack about the expresident being a threat to democracy, which is what donald trump actually is to our country. You have a trump advisor telling nbc, hard to say were a threat to democracy when you are trying to imprison your political opponents. The question becomes, does it work to bring joe biden into the mud with donald trump . Because thats what republicans are trying to do here with these Scam Impeachment Hearings on the hill, with all the other stuff theyre trying to do. Theyre just trying to make the bidens look like trump. Is that an effective strategy for this election for donald trump and his surrogates . I dont believe so. I dont think that theres enough there there to make this work. The second you are willing to go beyond the, oh, well, joe biden has legal problems, the second you start to go beyond that level, you realize there is nothing