MSNBC's Rachel Maddow slams 'inexplicable' Ronna McDaniel hire, hopes NBC 'will reverse their decision'

MSNBC star Rachel Maddow addressed the elephant in the NBC greenroom by joining her colleagues in denouncing the network's "inexplicable" hiring of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel.

Maddow began her show by calling out McDaniel's role in aiding former President Trump, outlining her alleged actions behind the scenes in rejecting President Biden's election victory in 2020.

"I want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at MSNBC and NBC News who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone who hasn't just attacked us as journalists but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government," Maddow told viewers Monday. "Someone who is still is trying to convince Americans that this election stuff- it doesn't really work, that this last election, it wasn't a real result, that American elections are fraudulent."

She suggested Trump has gone much further than any "fascist" in American history who had failed to seize power through the political system.

""[Trump] would have been as forgotten as all the rest of them had he not been able to attach himself to an institution like the Republican Party, and had the leader of that party in his time not decided that she wouldn't just abide him- she would help. She would help with the worst of it," Maddow said.

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Maddow confirmed speculation that MSNBC president Rashida Jones did not object to NBC's hiring of McDaniel but stressed she changed her tune when MSNBC staff "essentially unanimously and instantly expressed outrage" over the decision.

"Ronna McDaniel will not be on our air. Ronna McDaniel will not be on MSNBC," Maddow declared.