Joe Scarborough Goes Nuclear on GOP Silence at ‘Politicizing’ of DOJ: ‘Haven’t Said a Damn Thing!’

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough slammed Republican senators who “haven’t said a damn thing” about the Trump administration’s “politicizing” of the Justice Department to go after the president’s opponents.

The tirade came as MSNBC journalist Ken Dilanian reported on President Donald Trump raising the possibility that former FBI director Christopher Wray could be investigated over the agency’s actions during the January 6 Capitol riot.

As Dilanian explained the view of Trump and his supporters, that the Biden administration “weaponized” the Justice Department and waged “lawfare” against MAGA, Scarborough cut in to lambast the ongoing investigations as making the administration look “dumber and dumber.”

“Ken, Ken, Ken, hold on –” the host interjected. “Donald Trump had Barr send John Durham all over the world and make himself look like a fool, being an investigator investigating the investigation. No, no, no! This has already been done. They tried this in 2019 and 2020, and John Durham and Bill Barr looked like fools because they investigated the investigators.”

He continued: “This is the same thing that happened when Comer did his investigation on Capitol Hill, trying to investigate the Biden crime family. He humiliated himself so much, the Republicans said, ‘Please stop! Please stop!’ They’ve already done these investigations and every time they do them, they just make themselves look dumber and dumber and dumber.”

Rounding on Republicans, Scarborough added: “The question is this: when are Republican senators – I know this is a rhetorical question to you – but any evidence of Republican senators concerned that the Justice Department is making a fool of themselves? These are going to get thrown out!”

Scarborough ran down recent attempts to take down Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and new allegations against Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, who prosecuted Trump.

He said: “How long before somebody in the Republican Party goes to the watch and says, ‘You’re killing us here, this is going to destroy us in midterms because we’re actually politicizing the Justice Department even more than those that we accused of justifying the Justice Department’?”

Dilanian acknowledged the frustration and added that while “many Republican senators” will hold the same view in “private,” none “are not speaking up.”

“We are headed down a really dangerous path right now,” the journalist added. “It gets worse by the day in terms of the things that are happening inside these agencies. And I’ve said this before, people I talk to all the time are very concerned that something very bad is going to happen, because when they’re focusing on all of these things that don’t go anywhere in these extraneous allegations that aren’t supported, they’re not focusing on the really important stuff, the threats that are aimed at our country.”

Scarborough warned that instead of “focusing on threats” from terror groups and rival nation states, those in Trump’s Justice Department were “going after their political enemies.”

Striking out at the GOP once again, the host said: “Republicans in the Senate haven’t said a damn thing, but the gutting of our Intel agencies, the gutting of the Justice Department, all of this, as Ken just said, not might will have a horrible impact on our national security.”

“I will say it will also have a terrible impact on our politics, and it will be Republicans, unfortunately, and others who will pay because when a Democrat or an independent billionaire gets into office, they’ll probably do the same thing back, if this continues,” he concluded.

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