Morning Joe on Trump’s Conspiracy That ‘Joe is a Murderer’: We ‘Are Not Intimidated’
“Joe and I are not intimidated” — @morningmika on the president’s Wednesday tweets #MorningJoe pic.twitter.com/sSvff3X8Cz
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) November 30, 2017
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski issued a response to President Donald Trump on Thursday’s episode of Morning Joe, warning him that they will “not be intimidated.”
Trump’s fairly stunning Twitter bender Wednesday included a call to investigate the death of a staffer who worked for Scarborough when he was a Florida congressman in 2001. The president called the death an “unsolved mystery” in his tweet. (The mystery is very much solved: authorities determined the staffer died after she fell unconscious from an undiagnosed heart condition and struck her head on a desk.)
“The president was tweeting yesterday, among other things, a conspiracy theory about Joe being a murderer,” Brzezinski said Thursday morning.
She then read a statement on the matter on air:
“I’ll speak for Joe and myself here because Joe has stated that responding to President Trump’s tweets are a waste of his time. Today the president crossed another deeply disturbing line. With his attack on Joe, the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America, advanced a false conspiracy theory to intimidate the press and cause a chilling effect on the 1st Amendment. Joe and I are not intimidated and his bizarre behavior contravenes both the Constitution and basic moral judgment. This is all we are going to be saying on the matter. We continue to focus on more pressing issues like the nuclear conflict with North Korea. And we hope the president will do the same.”
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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