Scarborough Goes on Healthcare Rant: ‘This Was Such an Obviously Stupid Play’

Joe Scarborough opened Friday’s edition of Morning Joe with a rant about healthcare and what he called GOP stupidity.

“This was obvious,” he said in the show’s first house. “This was such an obviously stupid play done by somebody or a group of people who didn’t know how Washington worked.”

Scarborough continued: “When they decided to lead with healthcare, why did they decide to lead with Paul Ryan’s version of healthcare?” he asked bewildered. “It was completely opposite of what Donald Trump promised every day on the campaign trail.”

Scarborough ended by saying Trump was acting like a typical “neophyte” president and warned that Bill Clinton made similar mistakes in 1993 and 1994 shortly before the Republican sweep of Congress.

After being pulled last night, President Donald Trump warned Republicans that if the American Health Care Act did not pass Friday, he would move on to other priorities.

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