Morning Joe scolded by Mika as explicit tirade against MAGA loyalist tests decency limits
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough explicitly called B.S. on Donald Trump's nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, and his revenge scheme over the 2020 election.
The MAGA loyalist has said he would prosecute or sue individuals whom he claims stole that election from Trump, and the "Morning Joe" host wondered whether he would target dozens of judges who rejected the former president's fraud claims in lawsuits he lost four years ago.
"I'm curious, is he going to go after the 63 federal judges who said the lie was bulls--t?" Scarborough said. "Is he going to go after them? is he going to go after the United States Supreme Court, who said it was bulls--t? Is he going to after Clarence Thomas and [Samuel] Alito, the two most conservative justices, who when they reviewed the Pennsylvania appeal said, 'Well, we need to look at this for legal reasons but it wouldn't have changed the outcome of the election.' Is he going to go after them as well? I mean, seriously – 63 federal decisions, the Supreme Court, you can go on and on and on.
"This is absolutely preposterous. I'll tell you what else is preposterous."
"You can use B.S.," co-host Mika Brzezinski gently chided him over his cursing.
"I did – did I not say that?" Scarborough replied, deadpan. "Yeah, I thought I said that. Anyway, I'll tell you what else is preposterous, and this next one really speaks to it."
Trump and his Republican allies are claiming a broad mandate from voters after winning the White House, Senate and House, which the president-elect has cited to justify his extremist plans, but Scarborough said his election win was historically narrow, and the GOP's legislative majorities were similarly thin.
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"Like we said repeatedly going up the election, this race is tight," he said. "Now I can see if this was like an LBJ-style blowout like in '64 or a Nixon blowout in '72 or a Reagan blowout in '84, but this was one of the closest elections ever, especially if you look at the outcome of the House and the outcome of the Senate, and the only reason Democrats are not in charge of the United States House of Representatives and Hakeem Jeffries is not speaker of the House is because North Carolina legislators rigged the process so badly that they took away three Democratic seats there in a rigged redistricting attempt that actually held up."
"So, again, here we are, one month since the 2024 election, and only one House seat that remains uncalled this morning that is breaking Democratic makes it look like they are in a dead tie," he added. "You know they'd call this, like, in Europe? A unity government, because they are basically tied. So all these people who are saying that this is the end of the world for the Democratic Party, I think they may be overanalyzing this just a bit."
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