Joe Scarborough briefly misplaced his cool and dropped an F-bomb on reside TV on Thursday earlier than rapidly trying to censor himself.
The veteran tv host bought riled up after watching Home Speaker Mike Johnson try and downplay Trump’s risk to hold Democratic veterans serving in Congress after they launched a video calling on members of the army to disobey unlawful orders.
Johnson mentioned in a clip performed on “Morning Joe” that he interpreted Trump’s messages ― wherein the president wrote issues like “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” ― as Trump merely “defining the crime of sedition.”
“What I’m saying, and what I will say unequivocally, is that was a wildly inappropriate thing for so-called leaders in Congress to do, to encourage young troops to disobey orders,” Johnson mentioned, ignoring the precise content material of the Democrats’ message. “Think of what a threat that is to our national security, and what it means to our institutions. We have got to raise the bar in Congress. This is out of control.”
Scarborough may barely comprise himself after watching the clip.
“He lies so pretty. I mean, it’s so easy for him to lie,” Scarborough mentioned as he sat alongside his co-host and spouse, Mika Brzezinski.
“These people are lying through their fuck— their teeth,” he mentioned, earlier than rapidly catching himself. “These people are lying through their teeth.”
Brzezinski let loose a yelp and tried to insist that Scarborough “didn’t say it.”
“It was just half,” she added.
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), one of many Democratic veterans within the video, referred to as out Johnson on Friday for his “mealymouthed” response to Trump’s violent response to the video.
“Yet another mealymouthed response from our speaker of the House, who continues to disappoint me with his inability to lead the entire House. What he’s basically said is, ‘I wouldn’t have said that,’” the previous U.S. Air Power officer mentioned in an interview with CNN’s “News Central.”
“The problem is, is this president says things, and then he means it. And so it’s really hard for him to kind of come across with that,” she added. “And then to say, as you mentioned, something as inaccurate as the fact that we are asking for people to disobey orders, we indeed are asking people to make sure that they don’t obey illegal orders.”
