‘Spare Me the Anti-Democratic Lectures!’ Scarborough Rebukes Bill Barr’s ‘Laughable’ Complaints Over Colorado Trump Ballot Ban

Joe Scarborough was not impressed with Donald Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, over his criticism of the Colorado Supreme Court kicking the former president off of the state’s 2024 ballot.

Scarborough led Morning Joe on Thursday as they talked about Barr’s interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, where the former AG called the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling a “denial of due process.” While the court deemed Trump ineligible to be president because his actions were tantamount to inciting an insurrection against the U.S. government, Barr warned that this ruling would only enflame Trump and his base.

Sam Stein contributed to Morning Joe’s conversation on Barr by breaking down the political ramifications and the legal challenge of categorizing Trump’s actions under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. From there, Scarborough rounded on the “laughable arguments” Barr and others have made against the ruling, starting with those who’ve demeaned the ruling as a “leftist plot.”

I think Bill Barr was wrong to dismiss it out of hand in saying it was ‘stretching the law.’ It’s not stretching the law!

The second thing is, again, how anybody that supports Donald Trump can say with a straight face that this is anti-democratic… This goes back to January 6th. The most anti-democratic actions that were taken against the United States of America since Fort Sumpter, and the very people that continue to support that insurrection and promise us if Donald Trump is elected again, he’s going to jail his opponents, he’s going to assassinate generals, he’s going to ban media outlets that he disagrees with.

These are the people that are now preaching about anti-democratic amendments to the Constitution of the United States as they fall on their fainting couches and are triggered that somebody may actually apply the Constitution to the facts at hand on an insurrection that Donald Trump inspired, that he led, that he was responsible for. Again, so many of these people are serving jail time and Donald Trump is not for one simple reason: because unlike Donald Trump, they’re not rich and powerful. So please, spare me the un-democratic lectures.

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