MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned Monday that an "increasingly desperate" Donald Trump is inciting civil war in anticipation of another election loss.
The former president returned to the scene of his first apparent assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he baselessly accused Democrats of trying to kill him and his family members presented the November election as a choice between "good versus evil.
The rhetoric left the "Morning Joe" host disgusted and disturbed.
"The level of un-American activity that you just saw is stunning," Scarborough said. "That is un-American. They know they're lying, Donald Trump knows that's a lie. He will tell you that the Secret Service, he thought, did the best job they could do. The fact that J.D. Vance and Trump's family would come out and out and say what they said, takes the threat of violence, takes the threat beyond where it was even leading up to Jan. 6.
"This is an increasingly desperate person, an increasingly desperate family, who is preparing for civil war. They just are. Talking about they're trying to kill him, Democrats are trying to kill him, and the lies. Think about this."
"I saw part of Donald Trump's speech this weekend," Scarborough continued. "It was remarkable, the lies. Not just on these things, but on policy. He'd make up things and throw it out there. I was shocked that the audience was really that stupid, to believe the crazy lies that he was throwing out there.
"But he does it so much. It is the falsehood, the firehose of falsehoods, but they continue to lie about 2020. Vance continues lying about 2020, Trump continues lying about 2020, senators will not say on Sunday news shows that Donald Trump lost in 2020, despite the fact Republican officials in every one of those states that mattered said that, yes, in fact, Donald Trump lost."
Trump and his allies are now making debunked claims about the federal response to Hurricane Helene, which has prompted Republican officials in the Carolinas and other states devastated by flooding to ask them to stop, saying it hasn't been helpful.
Scarborough placed that alongside the former president's claims about the apparent attempt to kill him over the summer.
"It's staggering, just staggering, when you have Republican governors from those states, Republican senators from those states, Republican mayors from those states, Republican county commissioners from those states, Republican officials from those states, saying that they're doing great," Scarborough said.
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"In a tragic situation, they are coordinating very well with the federal government. 'Shame on Donald Trump' – show this Charlotte Observer headline. It is an editorial from the largest paper in the state of North Carolina. 'Shame on Donald Trump for worsening North Carolina's tragedy with political lies,' and now the lie about Democrats trying to kill him. The lie about a person whose family had a Trump sign in his front yard trying to kill him, or the person who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, the lie that they were somehow part of a federal government conspiracy."
"They can't run on the truth because they're losing on the truth, and so the lies continue," Scarborough added. "The lies get more dangerous, increasingly desperate tactics. It's unbelievable. Increasingly deranged talk, increasingly dangerous provocation, and perhaps a provocation that is preparation for his loss at the ballot box and a call for civil war."
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