Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough warned that former President Donald Trump was looking “increasingly desperate” and “preparing for civil war” in reaction to speeches by the Republican nominee and his running mate Senator JD Vance (R-OH) over the weekend.
The remarks came during Monday’s show as the host condemned what he described as a “firehose of falsehoods” about the 2020 election result issued by Trump and Vance as “un-American.”
Trump told attendees at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday that “over the past eight years,” Democrats sought to stop a second presidential term by a range of means and floated the idea that they “maybe even” had been involved in the assassination attempts against him.
He said: “Those who want to stop us from achieving this future have slandered me, impeached me, indicted me, tried to throw me off the ballot. And who knows? Maybe even tried to kill me. You know, I always say there’s an enemy from within… We have an enemy from within, which I think is much more dangerous than the outside enemy.”
Scarborough reacted in disbelief:
The level of un-American activity that you just saw is stunning. That is un-american. They know they’re lying. Donald Trump knows that’s a lie. He will tell you that the Secret Service, he thought, did the best job they could do. The fact that JD Vance and Trump’s family would out and out say what they
said, takes the threat of violence, takes the threat beyond where it was even leading up to January the 6th. This is an increasingly desperate person, an increasingly desperate family, who is preparing for civil war. They just are.Talking about how they’re trying to kill him, Democrats are trying to kill him. And the lies. Think about this. I saw part of Donald Trump’s speech this weekend. It was remarkable, the lies. Not just on these things, but on policy, he’d make up things and throw it out there. I was shocked that the audience was really that stupid, to believe the crazy lies that he was throwing out there. But he does it so much. It is the falsehood, firehose of falsehoods.But they continue to lie about 2020. Vance continues lying about 2020. Trump continues lying about 2020. Senators will not say on Sunday news shows that Donald Trump lost in 2020, despite the fact Republican officials in every one of those states that mattered said that, yes, in fact, Donald Trump lost. Brian Kemp said it in Georgia. Republican officials said it in Michigan. Republican officials said it in Pennsylvania. They said it in Arizona. They have said it repeatedly.
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