Chuck Todd: GOP Has ‘Gone Off the Rails’ By Supporting Trump’s FBI ‘Conspiracy Theories’

Chuck Todd has little patience for what he terms President Donald Trump‘s “smear campaign” against the FBI. But the MSNBC anchor seems to have even less patience for, as he sees it, the Republican party’s enabling of that smear campaign.

Wednesday on MTP: Daily, Todd sounded off on the GOP — or, at least, many in the GOP — for anti-FBI rhetoric.

“That kind of smear campaign against the FBI leadership and that kind of willingness to embrace the president’s conspiracy theories has gone off the rails,” Todd said. “And it has gone off the rails with the help of elected Republicans who I think we all thought should know better.”

Todd went on to note that he finds the anti-FBI chatter hypocritical, considering it seems to run counter to some longtime Republican values.

“The president is facing serious allegations that he tried to corrupt this investigation,” Todd said. “And his response to those allegations is to corrupt the entire Justice Department with help from allies in the GOP which used to call itself the law and order party.”

The MSNBC host also took on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) for standing idly by.

“You could argue that their silence is a way of being complicit in this destruction of the FBI’s credibility,” Todd said.

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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