Cable Host Calls ‘Bullsh*t’ on Those Who Doubt Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Remark
"It was a distinction without a difference," Scarborough says
A popular cable news host and one-time Republican congressman from Florida is calling “bullsh*t” on those who claim Donald Trump was referring only to the automotive industry when he made an incendiary remark over the weekend.
Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and others on the program said that it was plain what Trump meant when he said at an Ohio rally that there would be a “bloodbath” if he’s not elected president in November.
Trump began going on about tariffs for electric vehicles when he pivoted to the comment about a “bloodbath” if he loses the November election.
“Now if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole country. That'll be the least of it,” he said.
Trump’s allies maintain that he was referring to an economic “bloodbath.”
But Scarborough was having none of it on his program Monday morning.
“It was a distinction without a difference,” he said. “First, he talks about the auto industry. Then he pivots [and] he goes, ‘Its going to be a bloodbath.’
“Then he says, ‘That's going to the least of it’” Scarborough added, nothing that Trump repeated, “That's going to the least of it.”
“It is clear what he meant,” said Morning Joe co-host Jonathan Lemire. “One of Trump's rhetorical gifts, if you will, is he speaks just vaguely enough -- and just circuitously enough -- that people can kind of read in different meanings. He allows himself a little wiggle room, and a little out, every time.”
He noted that Trump’s campaign team released a statement “within minutes,” claiming that the comment was in reference to an economic “bloodbath.”
“They knew that he had screwed up,” Scarborough and Lemire said, almost in unison.
Scarborough then took on the Trump supporters and other pundits trying to let Trump hide the true meaning of the remark, calling it “bullshit.”
“I’ll say that at 6:15 a.m. It was bullshit,” he added.
Trump “knew what he was doing. We’re not stupid. Americans aren’t stupid,” Scarborough said. “He was talking about a bloodbath. Sometimes a bloodbath means a bloodbath. And when he finishes by saying, ‘And that’s just going to be the least of it.’ Seriously? These people may be stupid, we’re not.”
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