Ari Melber Breaks Into Lauryn Hill Rap While Reporting on Trump: ‘Hypocrites Always Wanna Play Innocent’ (Video)

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arraignment in the classified documents case against him one week ago — MSNBC’s Ari Melber was so enthused by the revelations therein that he began rapping Lauryn Hill’s hip-hop classic “Lost Ones” on Tuesday’s episode of “The Beat.”“Think about what Lauryn Hill once said in her wisdom,” the host said before getting lyrical: “‘Hypocrites always wanna play innocent, always wanna take it to the full-out extent / Never wanna face it when it’s time for punishment / Can’t slick talk on the day of judgement because consequence is no coincidence.’ That’s a deep statement about justice or consequence or accountability or what some people call karma.”The moment came about 10 minutes into Melber’s report on Trump’s Fox News interview with Bret Baier that had the former president saying that he returned “some” of the mishandled classified documents to the Department of Justice upon being subpoenaed (contrary to previous statements saying he returned “all”) and that he didn’t return them in a timely manner because he was “very busy.”Melber took the interview as the latest evidence that special counsel Jack Smith has an altogether “measurably stronger hand than other prosecutors” Trump has faced in the past. “So I’ve shown you some of these breakthrough pieces of information.

You take it altogether: What’s happening here? What is he getting at in this interview? What is this defendant doing?” Melber said, addressing his audience directly.

He then admitted that it’s easy to write off these incremental developments as been there, done that, but he emphasized that this time might be different.