Joe Scarborough Rips Trump Retreat Into ‘Dark Conspiratorial Echo Chamber’ After ‘Bad Genes’ Remark: ‘Kind Of Fascist’

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough ripped former President Donald Trump’s claim that thousands of immigrants entering the country illegally were “murderers” who had “bad genes” as “kind of fascist.”

Trump digressed into a eugenics-themed tirade after calling into The Hugh Hewitt Show on Monday for an interview, pivoting away from host Hugh Hewitt’s question about Vice President Kamala Harris’s plan to give money to homebuilders and, instead, attacking the Biden administration’s border policy.

The Republican nominee told Hewitt: “How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers, many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States? You know, a murderer — I believe this — it’s in their genes. And we have a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”

On Tuesday’s show, Scarborough and the Morning Joe crew analyzed Trump’s hesitancy to engage in interviews with just weeks left before election day, following Harris’s appearance on CBS’ 60 Minutes.

Along with co-host Mika Brzezinski and MSNBC contributor Eugene Robinson, Scarborough reflected on how, in interviews, Trump had sat down for Fox News anchors Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity had pressed him on his threats to imprison political opponents.

Scarborough argued that Trump’s outlandish remarks about immigrants were just one proof that he had retreated into a “dark conspiratorial echo chamber.”

What he is doing is speaking to the echo chamber – a dark conspiratorial echo chamber. We’ll get to it, but also sounding very much, you know — how do you say it? He is talking about genes. That immigrants have ‘bad genes.’ It’s kind of fascist. I think the Nazis talked about that.

Watch above on MSNBC.