‘Dangerous and Pathetic’: Joe Scarborough Lights Into Speaker Johnson Over ‘Lying’ About Border Bill

A bipartisan bill on immigration and Ukraine aid was released by the Senate on Sunday, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has already declared the bill “dead on arrival” in the House of Representatives. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough ripped into the Speaker, calling him “dangerous and pathetic” for playing politics with the border crisis.

On Monday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough tore into Johnson for his repeated “lies,” going back to his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election in favor of former President Donald Trump. But on Monday, Scarborough’s ire was directed at Johnson’s statement on the border bill and his continued fealty to Trump:

[Sen. James Lankford (R-OK)] has said “I wish they would all read the bill. I wish they would understand how strong the bill is.” But the sad thing is, and it’s pathetic, and, you know, we say things can be two things at once. I mean, the new speaker is both dangerous and pathetic. Dangerous because he has decided — and he said it publicly — “We’re going to put politics over stopping fentanyl from coming into the United States. We’re going to put politics above allowing our border security to stop terrorists from coming into the United States. We’re going to keep the border chaotic for at least another ten months, because we want things to be as chaotic as possible for [President] Joe Biden.”

It’s just like Donald Trump saying he wants the economy to crash and he wants there to be a depression. He wants Joe Biden to be Herbert Hoover. So they don’t give a damn about border security. They’re willing to play into [Vladimir] Putin’s hand for Mike Johnson. That’s nothing new, willing to play into Putin’s hands time and time again. Willing to play into President Xi [Jinping]’s hand on China. Which, of course, is exactly what Donald Trump wants. And then you look at Israel — won’t fund Israel, won’t fund the relief of citizens in Gaza. So, again, this is all — all of these things that are important are being stopped now because Donald Trump told a grown-up man, “Don’t do that.”

Watch the video above via MSNBC.