'Not a time' for Schumer's 'very strong' letters: Jen Psaki rips Dems over weak messaging

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who is launching a new MSNBC show Tuesday night, said the United States is "under a version of authoritarian rule" under President Donald Trump's administration.

“There’s an aspiring dictator — or existing dictator, however you look at it — leading the country. He’s ignoring court orders. All of that is true," Psaki, who served as the press secretary under the Biden administration, said of Trump.

In an interview with Rolling Stone published Tuesday, Psaki said Trump’s second administration is “the most dangerous presidency" in her lifetime. "His desire seems to be to reshape how our government works, how our system works, to impact things for decades to come," she told Rolling Stone.

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Psaki will take over hosting duties for "The Briefing" on MSNBC from Tuesday through Friday at 9 p.m. Rachel Maddow will remain the host of the show on Mondays.

As the anchor of a primetime news program, Psaki said she understands she has a significant chance and duty to report on both Trump's increasingly erratic administration and the Democratic Party's ongoing search for a leader.

Psaki said she disagrees with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) “talking about sending ‘strongly worded letters."

“This is not a time for strongly worded letters,” she said. "And I think most people in the public, even people who would support him, would agree with that.”

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Earlier this month, Schumer spoke about a "very strong" letter he and other Democratic lawmakers sent to Trump, expressing their apprehension about the administration's decision to halt federal funding for Harvard University, which they saw as being done under the pretense of combating antisemitism.

"A bunch of us Jewish senators just sent a letter to the administration saying, detail the specific incidents of antisemitism and why cutting money off to cancer research or to Alzheimer’s research has anything to do with antisemitism. It doesn‘t," Schumer told CNN.

"So we sent him a very strong letter just the other day asking eight very strong questions about why this isn‘t just a pretext."