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Severe criticism followed McDaniel’s hiring as a pundit, after she headed Republican National Committee during Trump yearsThe former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel is on her way out of NBC less than a week after joining the network, NBC announced in a memo from NBCUniversal News Group chair Cesar Conde.Conde said he had listened to “the legitimate concerns” of many network employees. “No...

Timothy Snyder says former RNC chair ‘tried to disassemble our democracy’ and should not have been invited to take up positionThe Republican National Committee chair turned NBC politics analyst Ronna McDaniel “tried to disassemble our democracy” by supporting Donald Trump’s electoral fraud lies and should not be given such a media role, a leading historian said amid uproar over the appointment.“What NBC has done...