Trump insider trading should prompt 'extensive criminal prosecutions': expert

One former lawyer and political columnist is suggesting that President Donald Trump and members of his administration might be digging their own criminal grave.

Speaking to MS NOW's "Morning Joe," an animated David French said that the reason Trump's approval rating is so bad is that MAGA ran on the ideas around anti-corruption when it comes to Nancy Pelosi (D-Calf.) and Hunter Biden, not knowing that "behind the condemnation was the assertion that, well, the real problem is you just weren't grifty enough."

"I mean, this is the kind of stuff that the Gilded Age guys are all sitting there going, hey, we were born in the wrong century," French continued. "We had no idea of the level of corruption that was available to us and later on in American history. I mean, this is a this level of corruption is so severe that if in a new administration, if there are not wholesale pardons, that it's easy to imagine, just very easy to imagine, extensive criminal prosecutions related to insider trading, related to the kinds of tit for tat, quid pro quo corruption that we've seen. This is just an extraordinary moment in American history."

Joe Scarborough called it "a level of corruption we've never seen before." He compared it to MAGA world losing their minds over the idea that Hunter Biden sold one of his paintings for $85,000 from a private American. Under Trump, however, taxpayers are directly funding companies that Trump's children have invested in that now have government contracts and "possibly billions of dollars that the Trump family has enriched themselves" through cryptocurrency deals.

"This is again just the hypocrisy. It's just extraordinary," Scarborough added.

Co-host Willie Geist specifically cited the incident in which Trump invested in Dell, went to an event and urged people there to buy a Dell computer.

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo), who once served as a county prosecutor, commented that it's time to look down the road at ways to hold Trump accountable. However, she firmly believes, "Trump is going to pardon everyone in his circle before he walks out the door." Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the president immunity "erroneously," she said.

"I don't think immunity on his personal financial stuff, but to get the votes to actually convict him after impeachment is very, very hard. And what happens here is the erosion of the criminal justice system, because Americans are so frustrated that the Trump family is getting away with this. How in America can you do this and get away with it? And he believes he's going to get away with it," said McCaskill.

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