Joe Scarborough Graphically Details Murder of Democratic Lawmakers as He Slams Claims That Political Violence Is ‘One Sided Issue’

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough delivered a blistering monologue Tuesday recounting a string of recent murders and attacks against Democratic lawmakers and their families as he pushed back on Republican claims that political violence is “one-sided.”

The remarks came after the MSNBC panel aired a clip of President Donald Trump at an Oval Office press conference on Monday.

Pressed on why he had not ordered flags lowered to half-staff for Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman, who was shot dead in her home — alongside her husband and dog — in June, Trump said he was “not familiar” with her case. The president’s remarks were drawn in contrast with his tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week.

Trump also faced questions about why Republicans continue to place blame for political violence solely on the left, despite a mounting list of attacks by extremists against Democrats as well.

On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough responded with a detailed and graphic catalogue of recent violence against Democratic lawmakers.

“I must say, I have been baffled over the past several days by people like Stephen Miller talking about this being a one-sided issue when just a few months ago the most powerful Democrat in the state of Minnesota was gunned down in her family’s home,” Scarborough said, noting that Hortman’s husband was also murdered in the June shooting spree. “Melissa was an elected leader… She taught Sunday school. She and her husband left two young children. Gunned down in their own home.”

“Or maybe we should talk that same night about the madman who had a hit list of 42 Democrats on it, who then went over and shot nine times, the state senator that Melissa Hortman worked with,” Scarborough continued. “[Minnesota State Senator] John Hoffman, took nine shots to his body. His wife, Yvette, took eight shots to her body inside their family home.”

He went on to cite the attempted arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s home in April, with “his wife and his children sleeping inside of it,” and recounted how the perpetrator said he wanted to beat the governor “to death” with a hammer.

“This, of course, reminds us of the madman that broke into Nancy Pelosi’s home screaming, ‘Where’s Nancy?’ — a chant eerily reminiscent of what we heard on January 6th,” Scarborough said.

“Anybody who celebrates political violence is sick. They are sick. Sick! Those who tried to brush aside political violence when it’s the other side that gets shot or gets beaten or gets burned out of their family homes, they’re sick,” he continued. “But that madman goes in and critically wounds Paul Pelosi, I believe, an 82-year-old man who will never be the same, who just barely survived death.”

“What did we hear after Paul Pelosi, an 82-year-old man gets brutalized and hit in the head with, what do we hear?” he asked. “We heard laughter. We heard jokes repeatedly from the president of the United States. I remember watching him speak to the California Republican Party and they died laughing. They thought it was hysterical that an 82-year-old man was almost beaten to death in his own home by a hammer.”

The host went on to recall the 2017 shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) by a left-wing extremist at a congressional baseball game.

Rounding on Republicans, he continued: “How you can sit back sanctimoniously and say that this is a civil war and it’s all one side when we see the pain and the agony visited upon families and children of Charlie Kirk, of the Hortmans, of the Pelosis.”

He added: “Some of you are saying, ‘Oh, they deserved it. They’re Democrats.’ Don’t do that. Don’t do that. They’re all Americans. They’re all Americans. They’re all precious in God’s eyes. And the attack against them must be condemned as strongly as possible.”

“But to use Charlie Kirk’s death, or if Democrats tried to use Melissa Hortman’s death, leaders – I’m talking about elected leaders, not freaks on the outer fringes of social media – it’s just despicable. It’s just absolutely despicable,” Scarborough concluded.

“I don’t know who you think you’re lying to, but we know there’s a problem on both sides. We have to come together or this will continue,” he said.

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