Rachel Maddow delivers withering send-off for ousted Cabinet member: 'Hits kept coming!'

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow kicked off her weekly show with a political obituary for Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the scandal-plagued Secretary of Labor for the Trump administration, who announced her resignation on Monday following months of explosive scandals.

"Today, another one down," said Maddow, after recounting other Trump administration officials who had to leave in disgrace, like Greg Bovino and Pam Bondi. "And where do you want to start with this one? In January, the New York Post was first to report on a complaint about Trump's Labor Secretary that had been made to the Department's inspector general. And I got to tell you, the New York Post has since done a ton of groundbreaking reporting on this scandal at Trump's Labor Department."

"Chavez-DeRemer faced allegations of drinking in the office during the work day and of taking staff members to strip clubs and of taking personal trips at taxpayer expense," Maddow said. "She was accused of pursuing a sexual relationship with a member of her security detail. That member of her security detail was then put on leave. Then he resigned. Then her chief of staff was forced out. Then her deputy chief of staff was forced out. Then her director of finance was forced out."

"Then we learned that her husband — hey, there's a husband! — he was banned from going inside the Labor Department's headquarters building," Maddow continued. "That ban on him entering the building came after two Labor Department staff members accused him, the Secretary's husband, of sexually assaulting them at the Labor Department headquarters building."

And somehow, even after all that, Maddow continued, "the hits just kept coming."

"Last week, The New York Times was first to report on Trump's Labor Secretary allegedly sending text messages to her employees during the workday, telling them to bring her wine," said Maddow. "This is what The Times says, quote, 'In one text message, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer asked a staff member to bring rosé to her hotel room,'" which came from "a hotel bar in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where the Labor Secretary went on an official visit last July.

Additionally, per that report, Maddow noted, "Some of the young women were instructed by the Labor Secretary herself to, quote, 'pay attention to her husband and father' ... Three Labor Department staff members have filed civil rights complaints against Trump's Labor Secretary and the Department describing a hostile work environment."

"But now Trump's Labor Secretary is out, too," said Maddow. "As of tonight, Trump Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of her job. Her lawyer told us here at MS NOW tonight, quote, 'Secretary Chavez-DeRemer did not resign due to findings that she violated the law. Her decision to leave office was personal.'"

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