‘Un-American’: MSNBC Host Condemns Trump After Weekend of Falsehoods and Accusations
Former president, allies claim Democrats want him dead
A prominent cable news host decried the rhetoric of Donald Trump and Trump’s family after the Republican presidential nominee’s return to the site of the first assassination attempt against him and spewed not only untrue claims but accused his political opponents of trying to kill him.
Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, took Trump and others to task in a nearly 15-minute, impassioned and indignant monologue during Monday’s program.
The former Republican congressman was reacting to Trump’s rally over the weekend in Butler, Pa, which is where a gunman took a shot at Trump in July.
At this latest event in Butler, Trump and his running mate, Sen JD Vance of Ohio, suggested — without any evidence — that Democrats were behind a plot to kill him.
Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, said that the upcoming presidential election is a matter of “good versus evil.”
“The level of un-American activity that you just saw is stunning. That is un-American. They know they’re lying. Donald Trump knows that’s a lie,” Scarborough began, after playing a clip of Trump’s Sunday remarks. “He will tell you that the Secret Service, he thought, did the best job they could do. The fact that J.D. Vance and Trump’s family would out now and say what they said takes the threat of violence, takes the threat beyond where it was even leading up to January the 6.
“This is an increasingly desperate person, an increasingly desperate family, who’s preparing for civil war. They just are. Talking about they’re trying to kill him, Democrats are trying to kill him. This is it. And the lies,” Scarborough added. “Think about this. I saw part of Donald Trump’s speech this weekend. It was remarkable, the lies, not just on things this year, but even on policy. He’d just make up things and just throw it out there. And I’d be shocked if the audience was really that stupid to believe the crazy lies that he was throwing out there. But he does it so much. It is the ‘firehose of falsehoods.’
“But they continue lying about 2020. Vance continues lying about 2020. Trump continues lying about 2020. Senators will not say on Sunday news shows that Donald Trump lost in 2020, despite the fact Republican officials in every one of those states that mattered said that, yes, in fact, Donald Trump lost,” Scarborough said. “Brian Kemp said it in Georgia. Republican officials said it in Michigan. Republican officials said it in Pennsylvania. They said it in Arizona. They have said it repeatedly. Trump and Vance lying about people of Ohio eating dogs and cats. And yet the governor of Ohio, the Republican governor of Ohio, lifelong Republican, telling them to stop, that it is a lie.”
The rhetoric over the weekend was more dangerous, even — and the potential for political violence more real — than preceded the violent insurrection on January 6, 2021, Scarborough asserted.
“The lies get more dangerous, increasingly desperate tactics. It’s — it’s unbelievable. Increasingly deranged talk, increasingly dangerous provocation. And perhaps a provocation that is preparation for his loss at the ballot box and a call for civil war,” he said. “And let me tell you, there are hosts. In fact, there is a specific host on another network, the most popular host on that network that has called for civil war, that has said, ‘Let’s stop trying to figure this out at the ballot box. Let’s move to civil war.’”
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