He failed to get much attention during his brief run in the Democratic presidential primary, but Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA) is now making some noise on the internet.  A moment during his interview with MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Hardball With Chris Matthews&#8221; Monday has gone viral for what appears to be Swalwell pausing briefly to loudly rip one on air. After the clip exploded online, Swalwell was asked about it by BuzzFeed and denied it adamantly. Now &#8220;Hardball&#8221; has even felt compelled to address &#8220;Fartgate,&#8221; issuing a statement to &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; explaining what they say really happened.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-eric-swalwell-appears-to-drop-massive-fart-on-live-television-gets-mocked-online">The Daily Wire</a> reported, during an interview with &#8220;Hardball&#8221; Monday, Swalwell appeared to have an embarrassing moment while answering a question about the Democrats&#8217; favorite topic, Ukraine:
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<blockquote>&#8220;The president used taxpayer dollars to help the Ukrainians cheat–,&#8221; Swalwell said as he paused for a brief moment and then appeared to fart, which was loud. “–an election…&#8221;</blockquote>
Here&#8217;s video of the moment that went viral:
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Eric Swalwell appears to drop a massive fart during live on television
Turn the sound on, this is real <a href="https://t.co/DyElNSwYog">pic.twitter.com/DyElNSwYog</a>
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Even far-left Media Matters circulated a clip of the moment. #Fartgate had caused enough of a stir online that BuzzFeed reporter Addy Baird felt compelled to ask Swalwell about it, though apologetically.
After sending a clip by Media Matters to the failed presidential candidate, Baird had the following exchange with Swalwell:
<blockquote>Baird: I’m really sorry about this but I have to ask if this was you or someone in the studio.
Swalwell: It was not me!!!!! Ha. And I didn’t hear it when I was speaking.
Baird: You look like you heard it and are stifling a laugh.
Swalwell: I def did not hear it.</blockquote>
Swalwell&#8217;s denial wasn&#8217;t enough to blow away #Fartgate, so &#8220;Hardball&#8221; went to bat for their embattled guest — and managed to work in some promotional material at the same time.
&#8220;Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy theorists — it was the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hardball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hardball</a> mug scraping across the desk,&#8221; the show tweeted. &#8220;Get yours today and let’s get back to the news!&#8221;
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Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy theorists &#8211; it was the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hardball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hardball</a> mug scraping across the desk. Get yours today and let’s get back to the news! <a href="https://t.co/SG8Owm2IBw">https://t.co/SG8Owm2IBw</a>
— Hardball (@hardball) <a href="https://twitter.com/hardball/status/1196639020056494081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In response, Swalwell channeled his inner-President Trump after Special Counsel Robert Mueller finally submitted his report dealing the death blow to the Russia collusion conspiracy theory, declaring &#8220;TOTAL EXONERATION&#8221;:
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TOTAL EXONERATION! <a href="https://t.co/JAuTsnCjAC">https://t.co/JAuTsnCjAC</a>
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1196641189476421632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-eric-swalwell-appears-to-drop-massive-fart-on-live-television-gets-mocked-online">The Daily Wire</a> highlighted, Swalwell&#8217;s critics have had fun with his unfortunate moment in the spotlight.
“He who denied it supplied it. Everyone knows this,&#8221; tweeted Federalist co-founder Sean Davis in response to Swalwell&#8217;s denial.
“My sources affirm that Swalwell smelt it. It stands to reason, therefore, that Swalwell dealt it. #IMPEACH,&#8221; wrote Ricochet Editor-in-Chief Jon Gabriel.
The show&#8217;s explanation inspired the perfect &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221; response from Federal Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway. &#8220;First you gas your viewers, then you gaslight them. No one believes this,&#8221; she tweeted.
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He who denied it supplied it. Everyone knows this. <a href="https://t.co/u4TanKLvPh">https://t.co/u4TanKLvPh</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1196603470473773056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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My sources affirm that Swalwell smelt it. It stands to reason, therefore, that Swalwell dealt it. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMPEACH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IMPEACH</a> <a href="https://t.co/UcqC5O6z6W">https://t.co/UcqC5O6z6W</a>
&mdash; jon gabriel (@exjon) <a href="https://twitter.com/exjon/status/1196604917953126401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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First you gas your viewers, then you gaslight them. No one believes this. <a href="https://t.co/T2amY79hZO">https://t.co/T2amY79hZO</a>
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1196641988499648512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-eric-swalwell-appears-to-drop-massive-fart-on-live-television-gets-mocked-online">WATCH: Eric Swalwell Denies Farting On Live Television. Here’s The Video Clip.</a>
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Eric Swalwell’s ‘Fartgate’ Continues: MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ Issues Statement To ‘Conspiracy Theorists’

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Following Tuesday night&#8217;s Democratic primary debate hosted by CNN, far-left MSNBC host Chris Matthews questioned presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) about the costs of her &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; policy proposal.
Matthews repeatedly asked Warren how much the plan would cost taxpayers, though he never did receive an answer from the senator. Clearly frustrated with Warren&#8217;s refusal, Matthews later knocked the progressive lawmaker on-air. &#8220;Warren wouldn&#8217;t answer that question,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1156401216164941827">complained</a>.
&#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; will cost taxpayers more money, Matthews told Warren. &#8220;You guys dodged that tonight. … How much will your taxes go up?&#8221;
Warren refused to answer, suggesting the real question is, &#8220;How much are your costs going to go up?&#8221;
&#8220;I know that argument, but you&#8217;re covering it,&#8221; pressed Matthews.
&#8220;&#8216;Medicare for All&#8217; is cheaper than our current system — that&#8217;s the Republicans&#8217; version,&#8221; Warren said.
&#8220;I know the argument,&#8221; answered Matthews, &#8220;that you put it all together and you reduce the cost of healthcare premiums, and you get more benefits, therefore you come out ahead, but will you pay more in taxes? Why don&#8217;t you want to answer that question?&#8221;
&#8220;It’s a question about where people are gonna come out economically,&#8221; contended Warren.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not my question,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not my question. That&#8217;s not my question. My question is how much will taxes go up.&#8221;
Warren, again, refused to answer. &#8220;The question is about costs,&#8221; she said, about how much you&#8217;re &#8220;digging in your pocket&#8221; to pay healthcare costs.
&#8220;Will your taxes go up?&#8221; the MSNBC host asked, again. &#8220;Will your taxes go up? &#8230; There is no answer to the question, will your taxes go up.&#8221;
Matthews then moved on with the interview.
Warren and presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) both support a radical universal &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; program that would end private insurance and cost an estimated $32 trillion, $10 trillion more than the current national debt.
&#8220;Look at the business model of an insurance company,&#8221; Warren has argued, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/elizabeth-warrens-shift-puts-health-insurers-in-2020-crossfire.html">according</a> to CNBC. &#8220;It’s to bring in as many dollars as they can in premiums and to pay out as few dollars as possible for your health care. That leaves families with rising premiums, rising co-pays, and fighting with insurance companies to try to get the health care that their doctors say that they and their children need. Medicare for All solves that problem.&#8221;
Not all Democrats are on board with the controversial plan, however. Former congressman John Delaney, for example, has called the proposal &#8220;political suicide.&#8221;
During Tuesday night&#8217;s debate, Delaney bluntly told Sen. Sanders that his &#8220;math is wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s been well-documented that if all the bills were paid at a Medicare rate, which is specifically — I think it&#8217;s in section 1,200 of their bill — many hospitals in this country would close,&#8221; said the businessman and presidential hopeful.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t have to go around and be the party of subtraction … telling half the country who have private health insurance that their insurance is illegal,” Delaney suggested, adding, &#8220;The question is, why do we have to be extreme? I&#8217;m starting to think this isn&#8217;t about health care, this is about an anti-private sector strategy.&#8221;
As <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/447515-sweeping-plans-from-2020-contenders-come-with-trillion-dollar-price-tags">reported</a> by The Hill, Warren’s proposal to erase student loan debt and eliminate tuition at public colleges could cost $1.25 trillion, while her environmental spending plan comes with a $2 trillion price tag.
WATCH (relevant comments begin at the 1:30-mark):
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WATCH: Chris Matthews Battles Elizabeth Warren: ‘Answer That Question’

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Should a person who was just determined to have not committed a crime still resign in shame?
That seems to be what MSNBC host Chris Matthews was suggesting during a panel discussion on &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221; Matthews and his fellow panelists were discussing the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which found &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45041/no-collusion-attorney-general-william-barr-emily-zanotti">no evidence</a>&#8221; of collusion between President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. The topic turned, naturally, to another major American investigation involving a president &#8212; Richard Nixon.
&#8220;I think Nixon had shame,&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o35-HNuhpY">Matthews said</a>. &#8220;It may not have been moral shame, but was political shame. He knew he blew it.&#8221;
Matthews then explained that Nixon &#8220;got caught up&#8221; in various scandals, including one during his first campaign in 1946, when he accused incumbent Democrat opponent Jerry Voorhis of having communist ties. Switching back to Nixon resigning as president over the Watergate scandal, Matthews suggested Trump should do the same.
&#8220;[Nixon] got caught, and he knew it, and he cried, and he left,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;Trump doesn&#8217;t have that faculty.&#8221;
Host Mika Brezezinski nodded her head and agreed.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/HardballChris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HardballChris</a>: &#8220;I think Nixon had shame. It may have not been moral shame, but it was political shame &#8230; He got caught, and he knew it, and he cried, and he left. Trump doesn&#8217;t have that faculty.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/aXFpRa5N7z">pic.twitter.com/aXFpRa5N7z</a>
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Matthews made these comments the day after Attorney General William Barr released his summary of Mueller&#8217;s report, which found &#8220;no evidence&#8221; of collusion. Democrats will point to another line in the summary, which states that Mueller&#8217;s &#8220;report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.&#8221; Neither Barr nor Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein believed the allegations that Trump had &#8220;obstructed justice&#8221; warranted further investigation.
Still, it&#8217;s a far stretch to suggest Trump should resign over something he doesn&#8217;t appear to have done.
Earlier in the program, Matthews <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o35-HNuhpY">expressed his shock and dismay</a> that neither Trump nor his children, associates, nor &#8220;henchmen&#8221; would be indicted.
&#8220;I think the Democrats have got to win the election,&#8221; Matthews said, hinting that the party must win in order to hold Trump accountable for the alleged crimes for which Mueller found no evidence.
Matthews has had a strained relationship with reality when it comes to Republicans, especially Trump. In December of last year, he suggested that Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39538/wacky-msnbcs-chris-matthews-predicts-trump-will-joseph-curl">should resign as part of a deal</a> with Mueller to ensure the president&#8217;s children were not indicted as part of the investigation.
&#8220;What if he were to say he would let the children walk if the old man does the same? That would mean giving up the presidency in exchange for acquittals all around &#8213; not just for himself, but for all his kids,&#8221; Matthews said.
Now Matthews is trying to keep the &#8220;resignation&#8221; fire lit by suggesting Trump resign just because the MSNBC host wants him to. Democrats hung their hopes on Mueller discovering evidence of collusion and obstruction that would lead to Trump&#8217;s downfall. That hasn&#8217;t happened, so the Left is stuck demanding he resign even though Mueller recommended no indictments of anyone close to Trump &#8212; or any American, for that matter &#8212; for colluding with Russia.
As for the obstruction charge, this is just the Left demanding people they believe are guilty not publicly defend themselves or suggest the investigation against them is a sham &#8212; even when it is.

WATCH: Chris Matthews Says ‘Nixon Had Shame,’ Suggests Trump Should Resign Even Though Mueller Report Found No Collusion

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That didn&#8217;t take long.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller was the darling of the liberal intelligentsia for the past two years, but as soon as he released his long-awaited report that ended up clearing President Trump of all charges that he colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election, liberals turned on him. Hard.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who has made a career of appearing on liberal cable stations alleging all kinds of criminal activity by Trump and his campaign team, quickly said Mueller was wrong.
&#8220;It was a mistake to rely on written responses by the president,&#8221; Schiff said during an appearance on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; on Sunday. &#8220;That&#8217;s generally more what the lawyer has to say than what the individual has to say.&#8221; Schiff, chairman of the House intelligence committee, said Mueller should have interviewed Trump under oath.
MSNBC host Chris Matthews, the guy who always got a thrill up his leg whenever he saw former president Barack Obama, also thought Mueller must be kinda dumb.
&#8220;Maybe he missed the boat here,&#8221; Matthews said of Mueller. &#8220;Why was there never an interrogation of this president? We were told for weeks by experts, &#8216;You cannot deal with an obstruction-of-justice charge or investigation without getting the motive.&#8217; &#8230; How could they let Trump off the hook?&#8221;
Well, Chris, a few days ago you were singing the praises of the special counsel, now he&#8217;s &#8220;missing boats&#8221;?
Uber liberal Cenk Uygur, host of online news show The Young Turks, wasn&#8217;t going to let some stinkin&#8217; report color his world. &#8220;Let me be clear, I CONCEDE NOTHING!&#8221; he wrote on Twitter. &#8220;If #MuellerReport didn&#8217;t look into Trump&#8217;s business ties with the Russians before the elections and didn&#8217;t look into his secret meetings with them after the election, then this is an epic debacle that looked into the exact wrong things.&#8221;
HBO talk show host Bill Maher agreed. &#8220;Did the Democrats put too much trust in the Mueller report? Because I don&#8217;t need the Mueller report to know he&#8217;s a traitor. I have a TV,&#8221; Maher told his panel of guests on his show &#8212; apparently referring to Trump (although by now, liberals are beginning to consider Mueller a traitor to their cause).
&#8220;Comedian&#8221; Chelsea Handler said: &#8220;I will admit my feelings for Mueller are conflicted now and my sexual attraction to him is in peril, but I still believe there is a lot more to come, and we must all march in the streets if we don&#8217;t see that report.&#8221;
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I will admit my feelings for Mueller are conflicted now and my sexual attraction to him is in peril, but I still believe there is a lot more to come, and we must all march in the streets if we don&#8217;t see that report.
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The Washington Post detailed the back-biting in a piece headlined, &#8220;For Democrats, the Mueller report turns their politics upside down.&#8221;
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Democrats put their faith in Mueller. Now they are questioning how and why he did what he did. Should he have forced the president to answer questions in person, rather than in writing? Why didn&#8217;t he make a judgment on obstruction, rather than turning it over to the attorney general to make perhaps the most important call of the investigation? Did he interpret his mandate too narrowly? The second-guessing, still at a low level, reflects the frustration among Democrats and opponents of the president who already had connected dots that Mueller found not conclusive.
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Soon, the charges will emerge that Mueller, who was once appointed head of the FBI by (gasp) George W. Bush, was in the bag for Trump all along. And of course, after the Mueller report was released, exonerating Trump of all those collusion allegations, Democrats simply moved on, joining together to collectively demand the full release of the report and all evidence gathered.
Which is what made the tweet by former FBI director James Comey&#8217;s tweet so fantastic.
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Uh, Jimbo, you gotta back up a bit. A little more. There, don&#8217;t you see it? It&#8217;s not just trees, it&#8217;s a forest!

CURL: Liberals Turn On Mueller, Accuse Him Of Being Too Stupid To Find Trump Guilty Of Everything

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MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews thinks President Trump might just resign as part of a secret deal with special prosecutor Robert Mueller in an effort to avoid prosecution of himself or members of his family.
&#8220;The president&#8217;s children stand right in the line of Mueller&#8217;s investigative progress,&#8221; Matthews said this week on his show &#8220;Hardball,&#8221; referring to Ivanka and Donald Jr. &#8220;They stand as the next dominoes to fall,&#8221; Matthews said, noting that the Trump children can &#8220;hardly testify against their father.&#8221;
&#8220;Therein lies the problem: Where earlier Mueller subjects have given Trump up, these two lack the option to do that,&#8221; said the TV entertainer, adding that if Mueller &#8220;will not be stopped and the kids will not fall to him, we see the president&#8217;s adult children heading to prison.&#8221;
Matthews then mused about a solution. &#8220;But what if the prosecutor were to offer the president an alternative?&#8221; he said. &#8220;What if he were to say he would let the children walk if the old man does the same? That would mean giving up the presidency in exchange for acquittals all around &#8213; not just for himself, but for all his kids,&#8221; said Matthews, who famously got a &#8220;thrill&#8221; up his leg whenever he watched former President Barack Obama speak.
The TV host said it&#8217;s happened before, citing the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973, who struck a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time for tax evasion. &#8220;Leverage the office while you still have it. So let&#8217;s watch the probable events of the coming weeks bring all this to a breaking point,&#8221; Matthews said.
&#8220;It is going to be historic,&#8221; he predicted.
The scenario has become a favorite of Washington insiders and mainstream media of late. The Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;conservative&#8221; columnist Jennifer Rubin said last week that Trump is likely planning an 11th hour stunt to avoid going to jail.
&#8220;I would predict here on MSNBC that when Trump leaves office he will resign the presidency 10 minutes before Mike Pence leaves office, allowing Pence to pardon him if there is not a Republican president to follow him,&#8221; Rubin said on the network&#8217;s &#8220;AM Joy&#8221; show.
Under Rubin&#8217;s theory, on January 20, 2021 (or, more likely, 2025), Trump will resign the presidency at 11:50 a.m. (the incoming president is sworn in at the Capitol at noon). Then, the vice president will be sworn in as president (he&#8217;d have to be), and whip out a presidential pardon, which he&#8217;d sign. At noon, poof, Pence is no longer president and Trump is in the clear.
Talk about wacky.

WACKY: MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews Predicts Trump Will Resign Soon In Secret Deal With Mueller

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They say &#8220;be careful what you wish for.&#8221; Next time MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews should think long and hard before he calls for a &#8220;Spanish Civil War&#8221; over a SCOTUS fight.
Back in June when Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, leftists were up in arms over who would replace him, with many fretting about the fate of their beloved Roe v. Wade. One of those men, of course, was none other than Chris Matthews of MSNBC.
Speaking to Ali Velshi, not only did Matthews predict the fight would be the &#8220;Spanish Civil War,&#8221; but his only advice to Democrats was to play as dirty as they could by blocking Kavanaugh at every turn. Matthews did not call for peace or level-headedness; he called for an absolute block in a situation he predicted would be like the &#8220;Spanish Civil War.&#8221;
&#8220;So I would say, I think this is going to be the fight of the century,&#8221; Matthews told MSNBC host Ali Velshi. &#8220;I think the Democrats have to say &#8216;No way, non pasario, no one passes this line.'&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to be almost like Spanish Civil War stuff,&#8221; Matthews continued. &#8220;You watch the next few months.&#8221;
At the same time, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer(D-NY) said that he would oppose Brett Kavanaugh with <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/396236-schumer-i-will-oppose-kavanaugh-with-everything-ive-got">&#8220;everything I&#8217;ve got</a>.&#8221;
As it stands, Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of attempted rape 35 years ago by a woman with no corroborating evidence or witnesses.
You got your wish, Chris.
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FLASHBACK: When Chris Matthews Said Fight For SCOTUS Would Be ‘Spanish Civil War’

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Disgruntled former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman released a video she recorded during the 2016 presidential campaign &#8212; it was a big nothingburger.
Appearing on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Hardball&#8221; with host Chris Mattews, Newman released the video from September 16, 2016, that shows President Donald Trump&#8217;s former attorney Michael Cohen boarding Trump&#8217;s private plane.
&#8220;You&#8217;re on my video just so you know,&#8221; Newman told Cohen during the video.
The video was approximately 30 seconds long and did not show anything else happening.
Newman, who has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34439/anti-trump-figures-destroy-omarosa-shes-evil-liar-ryan-saavedra">widely dismissed</a> for having poor character, then claimed following the news today about Cohen that &#8220;this is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump &#8230; because he knows that the person who knows everything about him, about his relationship with these women and other people may not know about what will come to light.&#8221;
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Last week it was reported that <a href="https://twitter.com/OMAROSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@omarosa</a> has an extensive stash of video, emails and other forms of documentation. Here&#8217;s a video of Michael Cohen boarding Trump&#8217;s plane during the 2016 campaign. <a href="https://t.co/1TJBgbidAe">pic.twitter.com/1TJBgbidAe</a>
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The response to Newman&#8217;s latest stunt was widespread mockery, including by those who are left-of-center:
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The video was of Michael Cohen, the president&#8217;s longtime personal attorney, boarding his plane in September 2016. Not an unusual or strange thing. Omarosa said it was to show he wasn&#8217;t a coffee boy etc. I don&#8217;t think even Trump would try to say that.
A big nothing. <a href="https://t.co/YYueTPygHt">https://t.co/YYueTPygHt</a>
&#8212; Yashar Ali (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1032042882947903489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I too am releasing EXCLUSIVE video of Michael Cohen. Must credit <a href="https://twitter.com/crookedmedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@crookedmedia</a> <a href="https://t.co/l8WTJoV5df">pic.twitter.com/l8WTJoV5df</a>
&#8212; Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1032043637964718086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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So yeah, isn&#8217;t there an Omarosa tape that&#8217;s about to be released or something?
&#8212; Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) <a href="https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/1032040742921953280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Please tell me i didnt stay up for this.. is this it???
&#8212; Ayo Milaje (@ayusfagbo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ayusfagbo/status/1032043121339785217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Well that video sums up nothing
&#8212; Scott (@jamestiz123) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestiz123/status/1032043165606465536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Oh my gosh!!! Cohen boarded Trump&#8217;s plane?!? This has Russia written all over it!!!
&#8212; Jack Uribe (@jackmuribe) <a href="https://twitter.com/jackmuribe/status/1032046512493092864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Omarosa Releases Video She Recorded. Twitter Slams Her.

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MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews went apoplectic on Wednesday after Justice Anthony Kennedy&#8217;s bombshell announcement that he is retiring, a decision that has handed Donald Trump another Supreme Court nominee and resulted in literal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32395/listen-dnc-members-wail-after-kennedy-announces-hank-berrien">wailing and gnashing of teeth</a> over at the Democratic National Committee. Matthews spent the rest of the day shouting from the rooftops at MSNBC that it&#8217;s &#8220;time for vengeance&#8221;: the Democrats must try to shut down the nomination of the next justice using any means possible.
At one point comparing what he believes will happen in the Senate to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32405/watch-msnbcs-matthews-says-conflict-over-trumps-ryan-saavedra">the Spanish Civil War</a>,&#8221; Matthews warned Senate Democrats that they&#8217;ll all be ousted by their progressive base if they fail to get &#8220;<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/27/chris-matthews-kennedy-time-for-vengeance/">vengeance</a>&#8221; for Republicans blocking Barack Obama&#8217;s nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think the Democrats should allow even meetings to occur for Trump&#8217;s nominee to fill this vacancy by Justice Kennedy,&#8221; Matthews <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/anthony-kennedy-chris-matthews-democrat-boycott-replacement/">said</a> on MSNBC&#8217;s Hardball Wednesday. &#8220;I think they have to fight eye for an eye for what happened in &#8217;16, where the Republicans led by Mitch McConnell refused to even consider or meet with Merrick Garland. I think if the Democratic leadership under Schumer allows this to go forward, they&#8217;re going to have a huge problem with the Democratic base.&#8221;
But pressed by fellow MSNBC host Steve Kornacki what procedural &#8220;tool&#8221; exactly he is advising the Senate Democrats, who only have 49 votes, to employ, Matthews lost it, taking a contentious tone with Kornacki about who would eventually be proven right, while Kornacki repeatedly assured his colleague that he was on his side.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not a parliamentarian!&#8221; yelled Matthews in frustration after Kornacki again asked his simple question.
WATCH (h/t <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2018/06/27/chris-matthews-scotus-vacancy-time-vengeance/">John Sexton</a>):
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And here&#8217;s the clip of Matthews calling for &#8220;vengeance&#8221;:
 
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&#8220;I think the Democrats have to fight this tooth and nail &#8230; The base will attack the leadership for this if they allow it to happen and they should. This is the time for vengeance for what happened 2 years ago.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/HardballChris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HardballChris</a> on Kennedy&#8217;s retirement. <a href="https://t.co/vovZUM4wFi">pic.twitter.com/vovZUM4wFi</a>
&#8212; Hardball (@hardball) <a href="https://twitter.com/hardball/status/1012048578460741632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#8203;Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32411/run-down-heres-what-you-need-know-about-trumps-top-ben-shapiro">SHAPIRO: Here&#8217;s What You Need To Know About Trump&#8217;s Top 5 Possible Nominees</a>

WATCH: Chris Matthews Snaps At Fellow MSNBC Host In Unhinged SCOTUS Rant

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MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews said on Wednesday that Democrats need to battle tenaciously in the &#8220;fight of the century&#8221; over President Donald Trump&#8217;s forthcoming Supreme Court justice nominee, later likening the situation to the Spanish Civil War.
Matthews fretted that anyone who is not conservative will think that the courts are partisan against them if Trump gets to pick another Supreme Court justice, <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/chris-matthews-scotus-confirmation-fight-kennedys-successor-going-like-spanish-civil-war-stuff/">The Washington Free Beacon</a> noted.
&#8220;So I would say, I think this is going to be the fight of the century,&#8221; Matthews told MSNBC host Ali Velshi. &#8220;I think the Democrats have to say &#8216;No way, none pasario, no one passes this line.'&#8221;
Matthews then eluded to a potential armed conflict breaking out.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to be almost like Spanish Civil War stuff,&#8221; Matthews continued. &#8220;You watch the next few months.&#8221;
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WATCH: MSNBC&#8217;s Matthews Says Conflict Over Trump&#8217;s SCOTUS Nominee Will Be &#8216;Like Spanish Civil War&#8217;

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MSNBC host Chris Matthews had a classic Matthews meltdown on his &#8220;Hardball&#8221; program Tuesday in which he railed against the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to reinstate President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32304/breaking-supreme-court-upholds-president-trumps-emily-zanotti">travel ban</a> from certain countries. 
As reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2018/06/26/someone-had-bad-day-matthews-suffers-epic-meltdown-over-supreme">Newsbusters</a>, Matthews went on two separate rants against the decision, opening his show with one of his trademark hysterical monologues.
&#8220;They&#8217;ve done it again,&#8221; Matthews opined. &#8220;The usual suspects the five-man Republican majority on the Supreme Court today gave President Trump what he wanted most: The Good Housekeeping seal on his campaign to divide the country and approving his travel ban crudely aimed at Muslims, the Republican-controlled highest court has shined up the entire Trump offensive on Muslims, Latinos and, let&#8217;s not kid ourselves, Democrats.&#8221;
Later in the show, Matthews continued his tirade by connecting the travel ban decision to the election of George W. Bush and the Iraq War, Citizens United, and, bizarrely, the Supreme Court&#8217;s affirmation of the Second Amendment. 
The news anchor whined, &#8220;As I said, Donald Trump&#8217;s dark brand of politics received the Supreme Court&#8217;s seal of approval today. Five justices reviewed in favor of president trump&#8217;s travel ban, the cleaned up version of his Muslim ban. The court chose to focus on the text of the policy rather than Trump&#8217;s prior inflammatory tweets and public comments.&#8221;
&#8220;And then ten years after making W. President and repowering the country&#8217;s war machine into Iraq, the Supreme Court put the cherry on the top giving total political power to the one force the highest court favors even more than Republicans, money,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The Citizens United case gave those with big money the unlimited license to change the course of elections. Embraced and beloved by Republicans, the Citizens United ruling brought down the last barrier between those with money and the power to direct the country&#8217;s affairs. No wonder so many people are telling pollsters now how little they care about a democracy so increasingly run by the Republican dollar.&#8221;
You can watch clips from the rant below:
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WATCH: Chris Matthews Rails Against SCOTUS Following The Travel Ban Ruling

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Wednesday morning on &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; MSNBC host Chris Matthews, opining on the 50th anniversary of Robert Kennedy&#8217;s death, gave Democrats a quick lesson in appealing to average Americans: stop trying to be their intellectual superiors.
Matthews, it seems, is over the &#8220;progressive&#8221; Democratic Party that once sent a thrill rising up his leg, and in a shocking speech to, of all people, Joe Scarborough, railed against faux liberalism.
&#8220;There are real liberals and there are phonies,&#8221; Matthews said, speaking of the legacies of men like Kennedy and former Speaker of the House Tip O&#8217;Neill, in comparison to today&#8217;s progressive leftist. &#8220;They&#8217;re pie-in-the-sky &#8230; always looking into the middle distance, they think they&#8217;re better than everybody else, because they went to Yale Law or whatever.&#8221;
&#8220;A true Democrat &#8212; lower-case &#8216;d&#8217; &#8212; thinks they&#8217;re no better than anybody else,&#8221; Matthews continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s so much elitism in the Democratic Party. Its so outrageous. And it all comes down to this notion of the meritocracy being entirely academic-based. You never hear of a master plumber being elite, but he is. She is.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s about sensing that your leaders give a damn about you personally,&#8221; Matthews concluded. &#8220;I&#8217;m tired of it, I&#8217;m sick of it, and I&#8217;m rooting against them.&#8221;
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WATCH: Even MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews Is Sick And Tired Of Democratic &#8216;Elitists&#8217;

On Tuesday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews, speaking on Politico&#8216;s &#8220;Off Message&#8221; podcast, promulgated an interesting rumor: that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would pass her leadership post to Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA). Conversing with host Edward-Isaac Dovere, Matthews reported, &#8220;Somebody hit me with the rumor last night that Nancy Pelosi is going to turn it over to Joey the third. Have you heard that rumor?&#8221;
Dovere, Politico&#8216;s chief Washington correspondent, answered that he was unaware of the rumor, but according to <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/chris-matthews-heard-pelosi-going-turn-leadership-joe-kennedy/">The Washington Free Beacon</a>, did not appear surprised. Dovere said that Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) has been forthright about his ambitions to succeed Pelosi. Dovere said, &#8220;I mean Crowley is more open about wanting it, but there are a lot of Democrats in the House who talk about Kennedy.&#8221;
Dovere did admit Pelosi has been pushing Kennedy&#8217;s career; she <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/young-kennedy-will-give-democrat-response-tumps-state-union/">selected</a> him to respond to President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2018 State of the Union address, saying, &#8220;And she was very proud to point out that it was her idea completely to make him be the one to do the State of the Union response.&#8221;
In mid-April, Rep. Jim Clyburn, one of Pelosi&#8217;s top lieutenants, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/21/jim-clyburn-house-leadership-2018-544900">said</a> that if the Democrats don&#8217;t win back the House in November the entire leadership should step down, asserting, &#8220;If we&#8217;re still in the minority&#8221; after Election Day, &#8220;all of us have got to go.&#8221;

Chris Matthews: Pelosi May Pass Leadership To Joe Kennedy III

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MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews descended further into all-out lunacy Monday night, claiming that Republicans are attacking House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) because she is an &#8220;ethnic&#8221; person.
Matthews made the baseless remark in response to President Donald <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26814/watch-trump-praises-pelosi-gops-secret-weapon-begs-ryan-saavedra">Trump&#8217;s shot at Pelosi</a> earlier in the day in which he called her the GOP&#8217;s &#8220;secret weapon&#8221; after she referred to bonuses and wage increases from the tax reform bill as &#8220;crumbs,&#8221; and &#8220;pathetic.&#8221;
&#8220;Picking on somebody from one of the coasts, usually ethnic, and making them the poster person of the Democratic Party is old business for the Republicans,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;They did it with, way back, to some guy from the Bronx back in the 40s, they did it with Bella Abzug from the west side of New York City, they did it to Tip O&#8217;Neil, they did it to Teddy, and now they do it after Nancy Pelosi.&#8221;
&#8220;They take an ethnic sort of person from one of the coasts and make them the banner person,&#8221; Matthews continued.
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Chris Matthews Claims Republicans Are Going After Pelosi Because She&#8217;s An &#8216;Ethnic&#8217; Person <a href="https://t.co/KKhQQynBvH">pic.twitter.com/KKhQQynBvH</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/960956899662299136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Chris Matthews Claims Republicans Are Attacking Pelosi Because She&#8217;s An &#8216;Ethnic&#8217; Person

Former RNC chairman Michael Steele has some advice for President Trump&#8217;s evangelical backers: &#8220;Shut the hell up.&#8221;
Speak for yourself there, Michael.
Steele delivered his admonition to Evangelicals while on a panel with MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Tuesday. The topic of discussion centered on allegations of Trump&#8217;s past philandering, including recent claims of his paying off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their affair.
After playing a clip from <a data-beacon="{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;Tony Perkins&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:3,&quot;plid&quot;:&quot;https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/tony-perkins&quot;}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/tony-perkins">Tony Perkins</a>, head of the Family Research Council, explaining that Evangelicals supported Trump based on his policy promises and the people he promoted, Matthews asked his panel if this somehow unravels their moral authority. Needless to say, they were all in agreement.
&#8220;They&#8217;re giving up all the moral authority here,&#8221; said Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons.
Matthews then attempted to frame Evangelicals as hypocrites for never giving former President Barack Obama credit for being a good father and being faithful to his wife, as if that would somehow overshadow the man&#8217;s unwavering support for abortion and his empowering sexual impropriety through Planned Parenthood.
The former Republican National Committee chairman had harsher words for Evangelicals.
&#8220;I have a very simple admonition at this point,&#8221; Steele said. &#8220;Just shut the hell up and don&#8217;t ever preach to me about anything ever again. I don&#8217;t want to hear it.&#8221;
Steele added, &#8220;After telling me how to live my life, who to love, what to believe, what not to believe, what to do and what not to do and now you sit back and the prostitutes don&#8217;t matter? The grabbing the you-know-what doesn&#8217;t matter? The outright behavior and lies don&#8217;t matter? Just shut up.&#8221;
Nobody on the panel seemed aware of, much less cared for, the Christian concepts of grace and the hierarchy of moral imperatives. As Jimmy Carter and Obama showed, living an alleged morally principled life privately does not absolve someone of the sins they commit publicly. A man may be a good husband and good father, but if he treats his subordinates at work like trash, promotes objectively evil policies like abortion, assaults religious institutions with the secular arm of the government, then his being a good father and husband (if that is indeed true) is rendered void by the magnitude of their public life.
Evangelicals judge Trump by what he does in the now, not what he did in the past. Unless Trump plans to use the Oval Office as his own private brothel &#8212; like a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton">certain someone</a> two presidents ago &#8212; or to use his position to assault religious institutions or continue the war against unborn children, then his past means nothing to Evangelicals, at least in the Christian understanding of grace, which is what Michael Steele seems to take issue with.
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Former RNC Chair Michael Steele: Trump&#8217;s Evangelical Backers &#8216;Need To Shut The Hell Up&#8217;

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MSNBC &#8220;Hardball&#8221; host Chris Matthews made a joke about raping then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to a newly-released video.
Matthews made the joke as he was preparing to interview Clinton on January 5, 2016, in an Iowa fire station during the Democratic primaries, <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/chris-matthews-bill-cosby-pill-hillary-clinton-interview.html">The Cut</a> reports.
The footage shows Matthews asking, &#8220;Can I have some of the queen&#8217;s waters? Precious waters?&#8221;
A few moments later Matthews asks, &#8220;Where&#8217;s that Bill Cosby pill I brought with me?&#8221;
Matthews&#8217; comments are in reference to the pills that Bill Cosby is <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-bill-cosby-timeline-htmlstory.html">accused</a> of giving to numerous women that he used to allegedly rape them.
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MSNBC has failed to respond to The Daily Wire over the recent allegations made against Matthews, which include sexual harassment and fostering an abusive workplace environment.
Matthews is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25278/report-chris-matthews-runs-abusive-work-ryan-saavedra">accused</a> of screaming at staffers, throwing objects, and demeaning anyone under him in the hierarchy, which includes leaving women in tears and berating guests on his show.
&#8220;The screaming is beyond the screaming you&#8217;ve ever heard,&#8221; one source said. &#8220;You just feel so under attack. He did it so openly&#8230; what are you supposed to do when somebody is verbally abusing you and attacking you this way?&#8221;
Matthews also allegedly settled a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24769/nbc-rocked-again-sexual-harassment-claims-against-ryan-saavedra">sexual harassment accusation</a> made against him in 1999 for making &#8220;inappropriate comments and jokes about her while in the company of others.&#8221;

WATCH: MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews Makes Rape Joke About Hillary Clinton

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MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews compared President Donald Trump&#8217;s children to known child rapists, murderers, drug users, thieves, and anti-Semites on Tuesday while interviewing the author of the newly released and already debunked book on the Trump White House.
While interviewing Michael Wolff about his book &#8220;Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,&#8221; Matthews compared Trump&#8217;s children to Uday and Qusay Hussein.
&#8220;Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon had an enormous amount of &#8212; they were polarized, let&#8217;s say, in the early months of the administration, and they actually came together,&#8221; Wolff said. &#8220;I think that they became quite good friends because they understood &#8230; this was an entirely anomalous situation that they had found themselves in, and it was coming apart.&#8221;
&#8220;I guess when you&#8217;re dealing with Uday and Qusay every day, you do find common purposes,&#8221; Matthews responded about Priebus and Bannon&#8217;s relationship to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
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MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews compares President Donald Trump&#8217;s children to Uday and Qusay Hussein.
Uday Hussein raped young girls, murdered anyone who pissed him off, used drugs, drank 24/7, and was so violent that Saddam said he was unfit to run Iraq. <a href="https://t.co/s8FUcEopIF">pic.twitter.com/s8FUcEopIF</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/950939500158451713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As NewsBuster&#8217;s managing editor Curtis Houck <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/950945175999795200">noted</a>, this is not the first time that Matthews has compared members of the Trump family to the Husseins. This is at least the sixth such comparison in the last year.
Matthews&#8217; smears come amid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24769/nbc-rocked-again-sexual-harassment-claims-against-ryan-saavedra">accusations against him of sexual harassment</a>, bullying employees, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25278/report-chris-matthews-runs-abusive-work-ryan-saavedra">fostering a hostile work environment</a>.
That MSNBC appears to have no problem with Matthews repeatedly comparing Trump&#8217;s family members to Uday Hussein is yet more evidence of its willingness to embrace extreme, partisan rhetoric. Take this excerpt from <a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,454453,00.html">TIME</a> on Uday:
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Last October another bride, 18, was dragged, resisting, into a guardhouse on one of Uday&#8217;s properties, according to a maid who worked there. The maid says she saw a guard rip off the woman&#8217;s white wedding dress and lock her, crying, in a bathroom. After Uday arrived, the maid heard screaming. Later she was called to clean up. The body of the woman was carried out in a military blanket, she said. There were acid burns on her left shoulder and the left side of her face. The maid found bloodstains on Uday&#8217;s mattress and clumps of black hair and peeled flesh in the bedroom. A guard told her, &#8220;Don&#8217;t say anything about what you see, or you and your family will be finished.&#8221;
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MSNBC has failed to respond to multiple requests for comment from The Daily Wire about Matthews&#8217; alleged sexual harassment and abusive behavior on set.

WATCH: MSNBC&#8217;s Matthews Compares Trump&#8217;s Family To Child Rapists, Murderers, Drug Users

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MSNBC host Chris Matthews faces new allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace after multiple witnesses came forward to claim he runs an abusive and often sexist work environment.
Two former NBC producers described Matthews as an unstable tyrant who was &#8220;liable to fly off the handle at the slightest mistake,&#8221; <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/31/sources-chris-matthews-runs-an-abusive-work-environment/">The Daily Caller</a> reported.
Some staffers for his nightly show, &#8220;Hardball,&#8221; reportedly referred to themselves as having &#8220;battered wives syndrome.&#8221; They said Matthews made inappropriate sexual comments and that he had devised a system to rate the appearance of female guests who appeared on his show. The DC reports:
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Both former NBC producers requested anonymity out of concern for their future careers. One is actively seeking a job in media and the other still works closely with MSNBC. One expressed fears about being labeled a &#8220;troublemaker&#8221; and cited the string of former Fox News women who have all but disappeared from television.
&#8220;Sadly, I know other women who won&#8217;t even be an anonymous source regarding Chris [Matthews] because they&#8217;re that concerned about the door closing on career opportunities in media,&#8221; the producer concluded.
&#8220;He would eye down a woman who walked on set or comment on their features or what they were wearing,&#8221; one former producer said, explaining that it looked like Matthews was undressing the women with his eyes. &#8220;He would objectify them and interrupt them in a way that he would never do to his male guests. He has a very outdated view of women.&#8221;
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Perhaps the most disturbing part of the Caller&#8217;s report was Matthew&#8217;s apparent extreme emotional volatility, which led five sources to say that working around Matthews made them feel as though they were walking on &#8220;eggshells.&#8221; The sources claimed that Matthews screamed at staffers, threw objects, and demeaned anyone under him in the hierarchy.
&#8220;The screaming is beyond the screaming you&#8217;ve ever heard,&#8221; one source saId. &#8220;You just feel so under attack. He did it so openly&#8230; what are you supposed to do when somebody is verbally abusing you and attacking you this way?&#8221;
Sources said that they were &#8220;horrified&#8221; by Matthews&#8217; behavior, which they claim left many women in tears as he berated guests and staffers on commercial breaks and after his show. During one such instance, Matthews supposedly chased a staffer off the set, screaming at them, while the rest of the guests on the show watched in horror.
&#8220;Seeing it would have made you shudder &#8230; you don&#8217;t forget something like that,&#8221; said a former producer who described the incident.
MSNBC did not immediately respond to request for comment from The Daily Wire.
Out of all the major news networks, MSNBC appears to have the lowest standards for employee conduct &#8212; if three recent disturbing revelations resulting in punitive action are any guide:
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<li>Chris Matthews accused of sexually harassing a woman in 1999, which led to settlement &#8211; the exact amount of which is unknown, with one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24769/nbc-rocked-again-sexual-harassment-claims-against-ryan-saavedra">report</a> claiming it was as high as $40,000.</li>
<li>Joy Reid wrote nasty, anti-gay blog posts on a website she used to run that was uncovered in internet archives. Reid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24247/msnbcs-joy-reid-justifies-offensive-anti-gay-ryan-saavedra">apologized</a> for her writings, saying that South Park did it too so she thought it would be okay.</li>
<li>Sam Seder wrote a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24065/msnbc-contributors-old-tweet-about-child-rape-goes-ryan-saavedra">disgusting tweet</a> from a few years ago that resurfaced on the internet in which he joked about his daughter being raped, which led to MSNBC to cut ties with him. After left wing celebrities came to his defense, MSNBC backed down and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24427/msnbc-reinstates-leftist-sam-seder-after-firing-ben-shapiro">reversed its decision</a> on Seder and announced that they were renewing ties with him.</li>
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REPORT: Chris Matthews Runs Abusive Work Environment; Staffers &#8216;Horrified&#8217; By His Behavior

Joy-Ann Reid

Sexual Abuse

Now we&#8217;re convinced: There&#8217;s something in the water.
A CNBC director who worked on &#8220;The Suze Orman Show,&#8221; has been arrested and charged with spying on a teen nanny using a hidden camera in a bathroom.
Dan Switzen, 44, hid the spycam in a tissue box in his Westchester, New York home, police said.
&#8220;He intentionally installed a video recording device in a tissue box located in his family&#8217;s bathroom to surreptitiously view a person dressing or undressing &#8230; at a place and time when (the victim) had a reasonable expectation of privacy without (her) knowledge or consent,&#8221; the police complaint said.
A friend of the 18-year-old au pair discovered the spycam in the bathroom on November 18, and the two took the device to police, who found &#8220;incriminating&#8221; images on the memory card. Police arrested Switzen and charged him with unlawful surveillance, a felony.
Switzen, who has worked for CNBC for 16 years, was released without bail, said his lawyer, Jeffrey Chartier, according to the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cnbc-director-accused-spying-teen-nanny-bathroom-cam-article-1.3723183?utm_content=buffer5baee&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw">Daily News</a>.
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&#8220;He&#8217;s a very decent family man. I don&#8217;t want to litigate these allegations in the press,&#8221; Chartier said. &#8220;We will defend him accordingly.&#8221;
When reached over the phone, Switzen said, &#8220;No comment at all. Thanks, bye,&#8221; before hanging up.
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&#8203;NBC has had a slew of sexual misconduct reports in recent weeks. The network fired &#8220;Today Show&#8221; host Matt Lauer after several women came forward, and most recently paid a Chris Matthews accuser $40,000 to end a complaint against the MSNBC host.
Mark Halperin, a political analyst who often appeared on &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; was also canned after reports that he rubbed his erect (but clothed) penis against female staffers and masturbated in front of one young woman.

CNBC Director Accused Of Spying On Teen Nanny With Bathroom Spycam

Mark Halperin

Matt Lauer

NBC News

MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews proved once again why the mainstream media is out of touch with everyday Americans. On Wednesday, he bemoaned &#8220;regular&#8221; Republican voters who will support President Donald Trump no matter what. To gain clarity on the issue, he turned to Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), an opponent of the president. 
Speaking to his &#8220;Hardball&#8221; panel, Matthews said, &#8220;Here&#8217;s a problem I have. I grew up with Republican parents, modern Republicans; they weren&#8217;t well off. They didn&#8217;t benefit from this Republican bounty for the rich.&#8221;
Matthews continued, &#8220;Why do regular Republicans who are not rich, including the rural people who voted for Trump, cheering for a tax cut, which goes to people that they&#8217;ll never meet, maybe see in a movie or hear about on Wall Street.&#8221;
After expressing his dismay at &#8220;regular&#8221; people and rural voters, Matthews repeated the debunked claim that the tax cuts only affect the top 1% of earners. 
&#8220;They&#8217;ll never meet these people, why do they say, &#8216;great work, Donald Trump, keep giving money to the top 1% of 1%?'&#8221; he asked Bennet. &#8220;People I will never be invited to their homes, never meet them on the street because they&#8217;re not on the street? Why did they vote this way? Explain.&#8221;
The left-leaning senator answered, &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure I can explain that. I can tell you that, consistent with your polling, the Republicans in Colorado, a lot of them hate this bill.&#8221;
Matthews replied, &#8220;Yeah, but they&#8217;re still gonna vote for Trump.&#8221;
Bennet emphasized, &#8220;Maybe not again, because what he&#8217;s saying completely conflicts with what he said on the campaign trail.&#8221;
Watch the conversation below:
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<div>(<a href="http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/12/20/chris-matthews-doesnt-grasp-concept-rural-folks-cheering-tax-cut-rich-578376">H/T BizPac Review</a>)</div>

WATCH: Chris Matthews Baffled At &#8216;Regular&#8217; Republicans Supporting Trump&#8217;s Tax Cuts

NBC Universal settled a sexual harassment complaint made by an assistant producer against Chris Matthews over what the network called &#8220;inappropriate and juvenile&#8221; comments.
A spokesman for MSNBC confirmed to the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/nbc-made-payment-to-staffer-after-sexual-harassment-claim-against-chris-matthews/">Daily Caller</a> that the company made a sexual harassment settlement in 1999 as part of a severance package while two other sources disputed those claims, telling the DC that Matthews paid $40,000 to settle the allegations.
The woman alleged to executives that Matthews made &#8220;inappropriate comments and jokes about her while in the company of others&#8221; while she worked on his show &#8220;Hardball with Chris Matthews.&#8221;
The network claims that they gave Matthews a &#8220;formal reprimand&#8221; at the time and concluded that his remarks were &#8220;inappropriate and juvenile&#8221; but did not constitute sexual propositioning by Matthews. MSNBC refused to answer whether this was the only claim made against Matthews in his history at the company.
The revelations about Matthews are the latest in an embarrassing run for NBC Universal as the network has been rocked with covering up major sexual assault reports, firing employees for sexual misconduct, and retaining an employee who made homophobic remarks in blog posts.
Recent scandals that have given NBC a black eye include:
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<li><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24183/watch-matt-lauer-brags-sandra-bullock-he-has-nudes-ryan-saavedra">Matt Lauer</a> &#8212; Accused of sexually assaulting an employee and sexting multiple NBC female staffers and interns.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22139/farrow-nbc-wouldnt-run-my-bombshell-weinstein-robert-kraychik">Wouldn&#8217;t Report Harvey Weinstein Allegations</a> &#8212; Ronan Farrow, the reporter who broke the Harvey Weinstein scandal, claims the network refused to run the story.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22784/mark-halperin-out-nbc-msnbc-after-sexual-emily-zanotti">Mark Halperin</a> &#8212; NBC and MSNBC severed their ties with Halperin after disturbing sexual accusations surfaced about him while he was at ABC News.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/23567/nbc-exec-fired-over-alleged-sexual-harassment-paul-bois">Matt Zimmerman</a> &#8212; NBC Universal fired Zimmerman, Senior Vice President for Booking, News &amp; Entertainment, for allegedly engaging in inappropriate conduct at the company with more than one woman.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24247/msnbcs-joy-reid-justifies-offensive-anti-gay-ryan-saavedra">Joy Reid</a> &#8212; MSNBC surprisingly maintained Reid writings on her old blog were discovered which included conspiratorial homophobic remarks. Reid, who is notorious for making inaccurate comments, brushed off her anti-gay writings by claiming it was okay because &#8220;South Park&#8221; did it.</li>
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