A Moment Of Clarity: "No other President has committed crimes the way Trump has!" - Michael Steele
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
When the legal system is under fire, why are we relying on citizens with cell phones instead of the world’s most powerful law firms? Michael Steele confronts a startling reality: while everyday Americans are stepping up as "legal observers" on the front lines, the institutions designed to protect the rule of law have gone quiet. We dive deep into the "arrogance of unchecked power" and break down the rhetoric coming from the campaign trail regarding the "weaponization" of the DOJ.
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| 0:42.2 | We are a legal profession that are now relying on citizens with cell phones and whistles |
| 0:48.4 | and informal trainings to be legal observers. |
| 0:52.3 | And every time I hear that term legal observers applied to ordinary |
| 0:56.6 | citizens, I ask myself, where are the lawyers? Why aren't they the legal observers? Why aren't the big |
| 1:02.8 | law firms sending people to be legal observers? And then, of course, you know, outside of a handful of |
| 1:10.0 | folks like you and, frankly, Nicole |
| 1:13.3 | Wallace and a lot of people on MS Now, a lot of legacy media, like, they're just kind of going |
| 1:19.2 | along for the ride, too. |
| 1:20.4 | CBS is not, you know, winning any awards for courage. |
| 1:24.2 | ABC News is not winning any awards for standing up. And so it is sad that it is actually |
| 1:30.8 | the most powerful institutions and the most powerful Americans who are doing so little when we are |
| 1:35.7 | watching the heroism of everyday Americans. Amen, amen, and amen. I could not agree more with |
| 1:43.1 | the way you frame that and the way you lay out those parts |
| 1:48.2 | of our culture, our society that should be leaning into this moment. Instead, they're retreating from it. |
| 1:56.6 | And in an embarrassing way, in a way that is so telling and so difficult, makes it so much more difficult for everyday folks out there, which is why they, you know, when we're out and about, they say to us, what can we do? What can we do? Because they don't see that kind of organizing energy like I talked about today, except from everyday folks, not from the institutions that could help, |
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