Joe Scarborough Plays Back Kash Patel Threat To ‘Come After’ Journalists THREE Times For ‘Apologists’
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough ran back a clip of President-elect Donald Trump’s FBI pick, Kash Patel, threatening to “come after” the “people in the media” to put Republican senators and voters “on notice” about the incoming administration’s intentions.
During an old episode of War Room with Trump ally Steve Bannon, Patel said that the Justice Department should be loaded up with “American patriots” in order to go after those in the media who “helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections” and “lied” about American citizens.
Scarborough, who visited Trump in Mar-a-Lago with co-host Mika Brzezinski in a move reportedly motivated by fears of governmental and legal harassment, pounced on the nomination and ran back the clip of Patel’s threats three times during Monday’s opening of Morning Joe.
Brzezinski introduced the clip that showed Patel vowing to “go after judges and journalists and loyalists who he viewed as enemies of Donald Trump.”
After playing the clip, Scarborough asked producers to “play that again” for the benefit of Trump-supporting Republican senators who stood up to the president-elect’s attorney general nomination in Matt Gaetz. The host named Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who he said would be “deeply disturbed” by the comments.
The clip rolled back again.
Scarborough rounded one more time: “I would love to also play this one more time for all of those Wall Street billionaires.”
He continued: If somebody threatens the constitution if somebody threatens the first amendment. If somebody threatens a basic bill of rights. It does not matter whether you say no to one or two or three of those.”
To the Senate, he added: “You know, the founders did not write that the senate had the advise and consent power for maybe one, one and a half dangerous selections. No. You got for that as many as you need.”
He added: “By the way, this is not uniformly vote no against everybody that Donald Trump puts up. I think everybody agrees that Marco Rubio, although not a Democrat selection, certainly is within the framework of somebody who could be secretary of state, who knows the issues, who with people on both sides, who may be an effective secretary of state. Same thing with the treasury director. Same thing with the Treasury director. But not this.”
“Play it again,” Scarborough ordered producers.
“This is not only bad for the men and women who run the FBI. This is not only bad for the rule of law. This is not only bad for the First Amendment. This is not only bad for the United States of America. This is bad for Donald Trump,” the host said. “This is bad for the Donald Trump administration. This is not going to end well.”
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