Joe Scarborough Goes OFF on Trump Supporters ‘Stupid Enough’ to Believe Fraud Trial Will Lead to ‘Communism’

MSNBC’s Morning Joe covered Tuesday night’s Fox News town hall with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, and host Joe Scarborough seemingly reached the end of his rope when it came to “stupid” Trump supporters.

What set off Scarborough — and co-host Mika Brzezinski — was Trump comparing himself to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose death in a Russian prison is being widely blamed on Russian President Vladimir Putin. When the subject of the $354 million judgment in his civil fraud trial came up, he called it “a form of Navalny” and said his being indicted was turning America into a “communist country.”

And Scarborough went on a tear:

It’s such a lie. It’s disgusting. It’s such a lie on every single level. A form of “Navalny”? Communism? A guy that lies to banks, a guy that lies to creditors, a guy that lies to everybody about his property holdings. Listen, that would get any of us thrown in jail. That would get you thrown in jail. If you did that or that would get you, if not thrown in jail, that would get you fined. And so he’s been doing this for decades. People in Manhattan have been saying he’s been doing this for decades. And so finally, if there is a form of sort of Putinism in America, which, of course, it’s so funny. He didn’t say Putinism. He didn’t bring up Vladimir Putin.

And he wasn’t even close to done. He had some choice words for Trump’s supporters and Republicans in Congress:

Like, I just wonder, I wonder what the people in that crowd, and I think we have to start asking this of our fellow Americans, are the people in that crowd really stupid enough to believe that if justice finally comes to one shyster that that somehow condemns America and makes it a “communist nation” when actually American capitalism is stronger today than ever before? Let me just say that again: American capitalism is stronger than ever before. We are crushing Chinese communism.

I know there are really stupid people in Congress who go, “Oh, these communists! Communists!” They throw that word around having absolutely no idea what that means. No idea what Marxism means. They just, like, anybody they are opposed to is either a pedophile or a Marxist. That shows you again how bankrupt intellectually, how bankrupt philosophically, how bankrupt spiritually the Republican Party is.

But he still wasn’t done, and he drove the point home that while Trump bemoaned communism, he still had no problem with Putin or Russia:

Donald Trump loves Russia so much he should move there. If you move there– He’d hate it. Tucker Carlson, why don’t you move there? If you love Russia, if it’s so great, if it’s a land of paradise… I mean, these are the lies. This is the BS we used to hear from Soviet leaders coming to the United States and talking on Larry King about what? A worker’s paradise– go to the workers paradise! Has a lower GDP than the state of Texas. California? This place everybody says worst place is so horrible. California. Communist state. California has the fourth largest GDP in the world. In the world, in the world, in the world.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.