‘Oh My God, What a Hypocrite!’ Joe Scarborough TEARS Into Lindsey Graham’s Complaint About Biden Withholding Weapons From Israel

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough went on a tear over Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) grilling Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin over President Joe Biden withholding weapons from Israel, calling him a “hypocrite” three times before launching into a frustrated tirade.

On Thursday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough not only pointed out Graham’s hypocrisy on how Republicans were the ones who “sat on their hands for months” and blocked aid bills for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, but he mocked his continued fealty to former President Donald Trump — and his accent! And his tan! It was a rant for the ages, and this is only part of it:

Oh my God, what a hypocrite. What a hypocrite! What a hypocrite! Republicans sat on their hands for months, refusing to give Israel aid. Republicans sat on their hands for months, refusing to give Ukraine aid. Republicans sat on their hands for months, refusing to give Taiwan aid it needed to push back the Communist Chinese from invading their island for months. And now Lindsey — first of all, try some sunscreen, buddy — Lindsey is talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki? We saw — Well, hey, Lindsey, I don’t know if you were on a golf trip when Iran fired thousands of missiles at Israel. Maybe you didn’t remember this. Maybe you don’t want to remember this. Maybe Donald Trump told you not to remember this. Maybe you’ve been hanging out with [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.], and maybe a worm, like, ate out part of your brain so you don’t have this memory.

It was the United States of America who stood up for Israel. It was the United States of America that provided the main defense in stopping those Iranian missiles from coming in. It was the United States of America. It was Joe Biden. It was the administration that told Iran we would always stand by Israel’s side, and we are standing by Israel’s side now and forever. But that doesn’t mean we send 2,000 pound bombs for [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to drop on a densely populated area that has over a million people there right now and no place to go. That’s your definition of an existential threat? They’re killing Hamas commanders as we speak without 2,000 pound bombs. They will kill and continue to kill Hamas commanders. Hamas isn’t taking Gaza over again and you know it.

So stop lying. Stop lying. I know it’s hard because Donald Trump wants you to say things like that. I just, you know, Willie, if I’m going, “I support Ukraine, I support Ukraine,” and then Donald Trump says, “Don’t support Ukraine.” And his hound dog barks, “Don’t support Ukraine.” Suddenly he goes, “I don’t support Ukraine no more. We’re gonna lease them weapons.” What? A country is dying because of Russian invaders. And [Russian President] Vladimir Putin says he has his eyes set on Poland and the Baltic states. And Donald tells you, Lindsey, not to support Ukraine and to hold up funding for Israel and to hold up funding for Taiwan. And you’re providing lectures to the Secretary of Defense? What a joke!

And that’s not even all of it. But this has to count as some sort of primal scream therapy.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.

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