Joe Scarborough Skewers Trump on Latest Border Chaos Reminding Everyone ‘Donald Trump Said Blame Me For This’

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough used Friday’s edition of The New York Post to remind viewers that former President Donald Trump wanted all the blame — or credit — for the chaos at the southern border.

The headline on the front page of the Post read “Onslaught,” and the story attached to it described how over 100 migrants rushed the border on Thursday and overwhelmed the Texas National Guard. The raucous scene was another opportunity for critics of President Joe Biden to point to his policies on the border, but during Friday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough held up the paper to the camera and yelled: “Donald Trump said ‘Blame me for this’!”

The only thing the Post didn’t tell you is Donald Trump said, “Blame me for this.”  Donald Trump said, “Kill the bill and blame me for everything that happens after this point.” Donald Trump said, “Blame me.” So yes, Donald, we are blaming you.

We’re blaming Mini-Me [Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)] for following your orders. We’re blaming Republicans who begged for a tough border bill, but like The Wall Street Journal editorial page said, couldn’t take “yes” for an answer. So yes, there is an onslaught in the southern border still, and it’s all Donald Trump’s fault. You know who says that? Donald Trump. Donald Trump says blame him for this. So we will.

Trump openly bragged that he was responsible for scuttling the Senate’s bipartisan border bill that was presented by a conservative Republican, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), saying: “You give illegals taxpayer-funded lawyers, so they have millions of dollars in this agreement, in this deal, which we by the way killed. I think we killed it. I think it’s dead!”

Watch the video above via MSNBC.