Scarborough Blasts ‘Beyond Breathtaking’ Hypocrisy of Republican Reaction to Rep. Omar

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough believes Republican reaction to a weekend tweet penned by Rep. Ilhan Omar that many viewed as anti-semitic is hypocritical at a level of “beyond breathtaking” (that’s a very high level.)

Ilhan found herself in a political media firestorm when she suggested the Republican caucus supported Israel because of money they campaign support from pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. She received immediate and bipartisan condemnation for the irresponsible promoting of negative tropes of Jewish people and apologized shortly after.

But the criticism of Omar has not abated. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence kept the story alive throughout Wednesday by suggesting she should resign from office, despite the fact that Trump has made similar tropes in his addressing of a Republican Jewish lobby group.

Seem hypocritical? Well, that’s what Joe Scarborough is talking about!

“The hypocrisy of the Republicans is beyond breathtaking,” he opened, before listing, in sequential order, a number of examples of Trump and GOP’s “bigotry.”

He went on to list examples block-quoted from a rough transcript below”:

In early December 2015, Donald Trump talked about a Muslim ban, banning offer 1.5 billion people from entering this country pause of the god they worship, pure bigotry, unconstitutional, a rank violation of the First Amendment. Then he talked about a Muslim Republicans said nothing. Then he claimed that he didn’t know who David Duke was or who the Ku Klux Klan were or what they did on the Sunday before Super Tuesday. Republicans said nothing. Then he attacked an Indiana judge born in America because his parents were born in Mexico and he actually said that that American judge couldn’t be fair and do his job fairly because there was Hispanic blood in him. Republicans said nothing. Then he starts putting the star of Davids over dollars and Hillary Clinton’s image. Republicans say nothing. Kevin Mccarthy suggesting that Jews are buying the midterm elections by putting up pictures of George Soros. Then during the caravans, Republican congressmen saying that Jews like George Soros were funding the caravan in hopes of stirring up their base.

Scarborough, a former member of the Republican party and conservative member of Congress is an oft-critic of the Trump administration and what he seems to consider the GOP toadies in Congress that support him. So it’s not unusual for him to be critical of his former colleagues, but occasionally his commentary is so pithy an on the nose, it deserves amplification.

Watch above, via MSNBC.