MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shamed Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin for looking past Donald Trump's "fascist" threats to use the military against his political opponents.
The Republican governor appeared Monday night on CNN, where host Jake Tapper pressed him to comment on Trump's threats, made the day before on Fox News, to call out the National Guard or military against "radical left lunatics." Youngkin sidestepped by suggesting the comments referred to criminals crossing the border, but the host pointed out that Trump had made similar comments Friday referring specifically to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
"What's so fascinating is, I would say normally, it's not really what Donald Trump said, except for the fact that what he is talking about is fascist, right out of the fascist playbook where you use the military to go after your political opponents," Scarborough said. "I will say, he did try to pressure the attorney general. For everybody, all these Trump apologists right now or people who are ashamed to vote for Donald Trump but are lying about Donald Trump, saying, 'Oh, we got through four years without him doing anything." Well, we didn't, actually."
"We didn't get through Jan. 6," he added. "Also, again, for those that were, that call themselves proud Reagan supporters or 41 supporters or whoever you've supported in the past, this is a guy that pressured his attorney general publicly and privately to arrest Hillary Clinton. This is a guy that publicly and privately pressured his attorney general to arrest Joe Biden two weeks before the 2020 election. We've been here before, Republicans know it — they keep lying for him. Again, I'm sorry, what's in it for Glenn Youngkin? I've never understood what was in it for him and what was in it for other people."
"These things don't end well for everybody," added co-host Mika Brzezinski. "It is inexplicable to me."
"Why have Republicans been doing this for nine years?" Scarborough continued. "Especially when you get to the point where you're defending somebody, Glenn Youngkin is defending the use of the Army and the National Guard against Democrats, against Donald Trump's political opponents. that's where we are, that's where America is. That's where the Republican Party is. Three weeks from – can I say it now – the election of our lifetime."
A recent survey of economists found most agreed that inflation would be worse under Trump than Kamala Harris, so Scarborough said Republicans couldn't really justify their support using policy proposals.
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"Almost unanimously, they said Donald Trump's policies would lead to higher inflation and a bigger deficit than Kamala Harris' policies," Scarborough said, "and the tariffs, they keep getting crazier and crazier – 5 percent, 10 percent, 25 percent. I mean, there's nothing about his policies that are good for anybody, except, like, billionaires in Silicon Valley."
"Republicans are so specific about things Kamala Harris has said five, 10, 15 years ago," Brzezinski added. "They remember it crystal clear, yet you present him with something Donald Trump said to them at a rally or said in an interview that they clearly saw, and they cannot admit it happened because it's usually something that is so against the norms or against what our Constitution stands for or unlawful. Just, again, the hypocrisy is incredible. It's also frightening, the things that Trump is saying."
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