Joe Scarborough Mocks Claims of 'Russian Hoax'
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By Ken MeyerFeb 28th, 2022, 10:43 am Twitter share button <?php // Post Body ?>
Joe Scarborough mocked "Trump apologists" for describing Russian interference in the 2016 election as a "hoax" amid Donald Trump's continued praise for Vladimir Putin.
The excoriation came as Morning Joe reacted to Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) blasting his fellow Republicans for the "almost treasonous" defenses of Putin and Russia. Scarborough brought up Trump's Fox News interview where he had "no message" for Putin in the middle of Russia's attack on Ukraine.
"I'm just curious, why would he be afraid to give Vladimir Putin the suggestion 'why don't you retreat?' Why doesn't he do what the rest of the world does?" Scarborough said.
He continued:
It's very strange, it continues to be strange. But again, you all on the far-right, Trump apologists, ignore all the evidence out there, and why don't you just use that term 'Russian hoax' for another five years if that helps you sleep well at night. So many of you telling us Vladimir Putin was never going to invade Ukraine. You attacked the 'mainstream media,' the dominant media, 'oh, they're never going to attack. This is never going to happen.' You're wrong. You've been wrong about Vladimir Putin all along. You've defended Donald Trump all along for him actually running resistance.
Scarborough turned to Jonathan Lemire as he said "certainly everybody that's enabled Donald Trump and everybody that enabled Vladimir Putin, they don't want to stop and connect these dots. Now is the time, though, with Ukraine actually on edge to say 'Wait a second, why did he work so hard to dismember NATO over the past four, five years?'"
The MSNBC host also referred the 2018 Helsinki summit where Trump sided with Putin over U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia interfered with the 2016 election.
Scarborough noted old reports about how Trump considered pulling the U.S. out of NATO, and recalled how Russian hackers went afterHillary Clinton and the DNC shortly after Trump publicly asked them to find her missing emails.
"They listened," Scarborough said. "They did what Donald Trump told them to do that night."
Lemire concluded by reminding the panel that Putin is on-record saying he wanted Trump to win the 2016 election.
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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To quote someone who posted this in another seed...
"Hundred of innocent words were slaughtered in order to create this word salad nothingburger".
everybody that enabled Vladimir Putin,
the entire Democratic Party on the hot seat.
I had the usual suspect ankle biters trying to rag on me because I said there was something hinky about Trump and Putin and pulling out of NATO and lo and behold here is the conservative Joe Scarborough basically alluding to the same thing.
Not for years. Mika must give great noggin for him to give up his soul.
It is strange that the liberals don't seem to understand the simple business strategy of "if you don't give me a better deal I will take all my marbles and go home". He got exactly what he wanted all along yet liberals are lost on how he did it.
Their speculation and fantast is a deflection from what's actually happened the last 10 years. It's been a real rough couple months for the Obama cult.
Right Down The Center..............of what?
Joe Scarborough.
We all had the Bidenites telling us "Trump's not in office any longer". But yet all the Bidenites are STILL placing blame on Trump.
Wake up call to the Bidenites. Trump's no longer in office, Putin didn't try this shit under Trump. He did it under Biden
Joe’s stream-of-consciousness routine isn’t doing him any favors. On the other hand, I suppose most of his viewers just swallow whatever he says with no thought.
Not exactly. Russian interference in elections (whether it’s the US or some other country) is well understood and not really a controversial concept. What people consider a “hoax” is the idea that 1) Russia coordinated with the Trump campaign to illegally steal the election or 2) that anything the Russians did actually changed votes, and thus the outcome of the election.
That’s stupid. We aren’t at war with Russia. How could there be treason? Ukraine is the one at war with Russia (although technically, there has been no official declaration of war that I know of).
I’d love it if he did, but I bet MSNBC would immediately accuse him of interfering in US foreign affairs.
This is the worst of all. You don’t need to be a Trump apologist to have said this. Lots of people said it - including people in Ukraine. Hey Joe, you want shit on the people of Ukraine while you’re at it? Dick.
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Way to make it about you, Joe. What a prima donna!
He “worked so hard” at that? For some reason, I don’t remember the proposed legislation to “dismember NATO” (whatever that means). I missed the call to dismember NATO in the State of the Union speeches. I missed the executive order diminishing our role in that organization. I missed the international conferences aimed at breaking up NATO. I missed the “hard work.”
This sounds like a made up thing that circulated in the progressive email this week because I keep seeing it.
It’s a dishonest misrepresentation of Trump’s real concerns about NATO. But they know that. They just don’t care because it sounds so exciting. Honest criticism of Trump has never been enough. They always have to bend and break the truth.
No, he actually said that the press would reward Russia if they found the emails. This oft-repeated meme is another example the tendency toward exaggeration that I just mentioned.
Yeah? Well, he also said he wasn’t going to invade Ukraine. Still think we should be paying any attention at all to anything Putin says “on-record?”