Elie Mystal Declares Trump’s Pardons Show ‘Disgusting Version of America That People Want’: ‘Great Job, White Folks!’

Progressive commentator Elie Mystal said on MSNBC that “white people” are to blame for the current “disgusting version of America” following President Donald Trump pardoning more than 1,000 Jan. 6 Capitol rioters.

Mystal joined MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Saturday and argued Trump’s pardons are no surprise.

“We tried to tell y’all,” he said, blasting others for being “shocked” by the pardons.

Mystal argued “white people” support Trump his “disgusting version” of the country, exemplified by his pardons.

He said:

I don’t like the shock and awe version of this because if he had been paying attention, they wrote it down. They told you exactly what they were going to do and exactly how they were going to do it. And a majority of white people voted for this. This is the disgusting version of America that people want. And, by the way, eggs are still more expensive so you didn’t even get that, great job, white folks! In terms of how we cover it as as a media or as a media group, we have to stop acting like any of these things have any basis in reality. Your earlier segment about birthright citizenship is a perfect example of how you should cover it. There is no question about whether or not birthright citizenship is constitutional. It just is. There is no question about whether or not the Civil Rights Act should apply. It just does. And every time the media tries to sane-wash Trump whitewash Trump, explain Trump, defend Trump, what they’re doing is muddying the waters on these issues that we have already decided. And I’m not saying that there’s not a place for nuance. I actually wrote in The Nation about how if Trump wants to end DEI programs, that’s legal. DEI is a policy, DEI is a policy invented by white folks to try to stop other white folks from being racist so if they want to end the policy, the next media question shouldn’t it be, oh my God, you’re ending DEI? The next media question should be, okay, so what are you doing to combat racism in employment and hiring? What are you doing to combat sexism in employment and hiring in the federal government, the largest employer in the country? Because if the answer is nothing, well, then that becomes illegal. That violates the Civil Rights Act. That violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, the equal protection clause. So the question has to be what you want and what’s next, right? It’s all right. You’re going to repeal it. What are you going to replace it with? Because just going back to antebellum racism, that’s what’s illegal.

Watch above via MSNBC.