Rachel Maddow names next top Trump official she wants impeached after Pete Hegseth
Jon Stewart asked Rachel Maddow on Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show” what she wanted to see from the incoming Democratic-controlled Congress to show lawmakers were “moving with purpose and urgency” during the final two years of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The MS NOW host responded with a lengthy wish list, including the impeachment of another top Trump administration official alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is already facing efforts to remove him from office.

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“I think they can impeach not only Pete Hegseth, but [Attorney General] Todd Blanche at the Department of Justice,” she said. “And I think that’s important, not just to shame those guys, but in some cases it’s essentially to stop a crime wave in progress. Just let them know they can’t get away with this stuff anymore and impeach them.”
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Maddow also urged lawmakers to investigate the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and then defund it, pursue “things on health care that would make it really difficult for the president to keep stepping on people’s necks in terms of having health insurance” and “use the power of the purse” to halt Trump’s war with Iran.
She additionally called for bans on congressional stock trading and political donations from federal contractors.
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Later in the interview, Maddow, who was promoting her upcoming book about the Justice Department, “Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America’s Most Consequential Institution,” returned to Blanche.
She criticized the attorney general over his meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of late *** offender Jeffrey Epstein, and her subsequent transfer to a less restrictive prison facility, where she was reportedly allowed access to a puppy.
How Maxwell “got moved to Puppyville” is “kind of impeachment-level stuff” alone, Maddow argued.
“And that doesn’t even get to not investigating who killed Renee Good. Or who killed Alex Pretti,” she added, referring to the two people killed in separate encounters with federal immigration agents.

