Donald Trump listens as RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel speaks during a campaign rally in Missouri in 2018. (AP/Jeff Roberson

In a Sunday appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel launched her campaign to rewrite her history of aiding and abetting Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert American democracy. In her first interview since stepping down as RNC chair earlier this month, McDaniel washed her hands of the Republican establishment’s complicity in the January 6 insurrection and declared her time running the GOP between 2017 and 2024 to have been a resounding success.

NBC News announced on Friday that McDaniel would be joining its politics team. The decision was lambasted by reporters. Within NBCUniversal, MSNBC News President Rashida Jones has told employees that the cable network has no plans to have McDaniel appear on its shows. On Sunday, NBC News’ chief political analyst Chuck Todd criticized the decision on Meet the Press.

Quite a moment on Meet the Press this morning. pic.twitter.com/1RKvAq7mj2

— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) March 24, 2024

Meet the Press host Kristen Welker said that the Sunday interview was arranged before McDaniel’s hiring was announced and that it would be........

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