‘Ignorant or a Liar’ : Morning Joe Rips Sarah Sanders For Biblical Defense of Trump Immigration Policy
Morning Joe opened the show Friday morning by taking on Sarah Huckabee Sanders‘s press briefing from yesterday in which she dodged questions on the separation of migrant families at the southern border, claiming authorities were simply “following the law.”
Joe Scarborough kicked things off. “The question is, is she ignorant? Which would actually be better for her if she just came out and said ‘I’m ignorant and I don’t know what I’m talking about’. Or is she a liar?” Because it’s not the law. This is Donald Trump’s interpretation of the law.”
“It’s not a law, it’s a policy, it’s the Trump Administration policy,” MSNBC’s Willie Geist concurred. “And I don’t believe she’s ignorant, so I would go with the latter.”
“So you think she’s lying. You think she would lie that many times?” Scarborough asked. “For somebody quoting the bible, as much as she’s quoting the bible, that’s just why I hope that she’s just completely ignorant, and isn’t lying on purpose to the American people that many times, Mika, that would be terrible.”
Mika Brzezinski noted that the Washington Post described Sanders’ comments “violently divorced from reality.”
“So why is she lying this much?” Scarborough asked. “I know children are being ripped from their mother’s arms, even while they’re being breast-fed. I know children are being marched away to showers, marched away to showers. Being told they are — just like the Nazis — said that they were taking people to the showers and then they never came back. You think they would use another trick like hey, got a slurpee room over there we’re going to take them to get a slurpee. That would be better than we’re marching them to the showers and we’ll be right back and they never come back.”
“I think there’s a commandment against the lying thing, right?” John Heilemann joked. “Isn’t that one of the ten?
“There’s a commandment against the lying,” Scarborough said.
“It’s also not biblically based that you rip children from their parents,” he added. “I believe it was Jesus Christ of Nazareth who said ‘let the little children come.'”
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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