Joe Scarborough Mocks Trump Loyalists Jenna Ellis and Mark Meadows for ‘Making Shit Up’ Before Turning Against Him

Joe Scarborough swore on air as he led Morning Joe’s discussion about Donald Trump’s allies turning against the former president to save themselves from their own legal jeopardy.

Ken Dilanian joined the show on Wednesday to talk the news that former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows took a deal to testify against Trump in the Georgia election crimes case in exchange for immunity. ABC News’ Jon Karl reported that Meadows told a grand jury that he told Trump his voter fraud claims about the 2020 election were “baseless,” but they tried to overturn the election anyway.

Dilanian connected this to Jenna Ellis’ Georgia plea deal to make the point that “People with lives and careers independent of Donald Trump are not going to go down for him. They not going to face millions of dollars in legal bills and potential years in prison to protect Donald Trump.” This led to Scarborough mocking Trump’s allies, who’ve gone along with the former president’s antics, to face the eventual repercussions.

While they’re running around playing, following Trump, thinking “Oh look what he’s saying. He’s getting away with. This is fun. We’re getting to own the libs. We’re getting to own the press. Oh my god.” Talk about a feeling of immunity. They felt like they had an immunity not only from the law, but from the truth. That they could say anything because this guy was the president of the United States, and he was lying every day, and sending out lawyers to lie every day, aay horrible things about federal judges, completely undermine the rule of law. Or at least, they thought in their mind, they could. They thought they could lie their way out of a presidential election. And then they wake up. And suddenly they see the charges are coming.

Scarborough concluded by wondering if Meadows and Ellis’ families had an intervention to tell them, “You have to protect yourself. Stop lying for this man.”

“You’ve been following this guy around for years, and you’re going to follow him to prison?” Scarborough said. “As Ken Dilanian said, it’s one thing to be making shit up outside of a courtroom. It’s another thing to say that into that courtroom and get five to ten years.”

Scarborough’s profanity drew an audible groan from Mika Brzezinski, who told him it was “not the right word” to use.

Watch above via MSNBC.

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