By Katherine Tinsley
8:58pm PDT, Jun 26, 2025
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Rachel Maddow slammed Donald Trump's impact on the FBI and the Justice Department on the Monday, June 23, episode of
The Rachel Maddow Show. She alluded to the Trump administration placing the U.S. in a vulnerable position as the conflict between Iran and Israel worsens.
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"We, the American people, have a couple of situations at hand, right?" Maddow began before slamming National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard for sharing a "bizarre" video accusing the world's elite of wanting a nuclear war. "To be clear, this is not the YouTube comment section I'm reading on an InfoWars post," she joked.
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Following Donald Trump's airstrikes on Iran on Saturday, June 21, fear of retaliation spread throughout the nation. Prior to the airstrikes, several attacks have occurred on American soil — including the assassination of a Minnesota state representative and her husband. "How do you prepare us as a country?" Rachel Maddow asked. "Well, again, it depends on who is running the U.S. government. … It's not like domestic counterterrorism is a niche concern in America right now."
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Rachel Maddow later hinted at Donald Trump leaning on unqualified people to lead essential national security and law enforcement agencies: "From the [Director of National Intelligence] to the decimation of the Justice Department and particularly the FBI, which is now led at the director and deputy director levels by two right-wing podcasters [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino], to the Department of Homeland Security, where a lawn boy and Model U.N. kid [Thomas Fugate] has been
appointed to lead counterterrorism [efforts] … in every element of its responsibility to keep the American people safe, the U.S. government under Donald Trump is, I guess, doing the best they're capable of," she griped, emphasizing "this is the best they can do."
