Rachel Maddow, the left’s powerhouse on cable, doubles down on the collusion angle
By Paul Farhi Paul Farhi Media reporter Email Bio Follow March 26 at 11:31 AM Rachel Maddow, the queen of collusion, is not backing down.
“Whatever information [Barr] just received from Robert Mueller about the president’s behavior as it pertains to potential criminal obstruction of justice, Barr could have just passed that information onto [Congress] for them to decide what to do with it,” Maddow said on her MSNBC program Monday night. “But instead, somewhat inexplicably, he decided to take it upon himself to declare definitively, ‘Yeah, you know, I looked at all that stuff, and I can tell you there is no crime there, it’s fine.
Trump’s supporters savaged Maddow in the wake of the release of Barr’s four-page memo Sunday night. The memo said Mueller’s 22-month investigation had not turned up evidence sufficient to conclude Trump and his associates were involved in a conspiracy with Russia to sway the 2016 election. It also said Mueller had not drawn a conclusion about whether Trump had obstructed efforts to investigate him — specifically it did not exonerate him.
In fact, Maddow went in early and often on the collusion angle, although she sometimes hedged her commentary. Maddow’s relentless focus on the issue has turned her into MSNBC’s biggest attraction and the key to the network’s improving position against its long-dominant rival, Fox News. On most weeknights, Maddow challenges Hannity, her direct timeslot competitor and ideological opposite, for the largest audience in cable news and often on cable in general. And on many nights, she wins: During February, she attracted an average of 3.
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