'What a joke': Morning Joe shreds conservative legal complaints about Colorado ruling
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough flatly rejected conservative arguments against the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that disqualified Donald Trump from holding political office.
Former attorney general Bill Barr claimed the ruling would help Trump politically, and many others have argued that his political fate should be decided at the ballot box, but the "Morning Joe" host laughed off claims that the decision was anti-democratic.
"I understand the political impact of this," Scarborough said. "A couple laughable arguments, though, that if you hear somebody saying today, feel free to mock them. Don't mock them, I'm just joking – it's the Christmas season. Be sweet, maybe just gently correct them. The No. 1 thing is that this is some kind of leftist plot. This is not a leftist plot. This idea, this law review paper, this approach was actually framed by two highly respected members of the Federalist Society, people that the new members of the [U.S.] Supreme Court that were appointed by Donald Trump know all too well and have read all too often. To just simply dismiss this as some sort of left-wing, legal conspiracy."
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"I think Bill Barr was wrong to dismiss it out of hand in saying it was, quote, stretching the law," Scarborough continued. "It's not stretching the law. The second thing is, again, how anybody that supports Donald Trump can say with a straight face that this is anti-democratic. Again, this goes back to Jan. 6, the most anti-democratic actions that were taken against the United States of America since Fort Sumter, and the very people that continue to support that insurrection and promise us if Donald Trump is elected again, he's going to jail his opponents, he's going to assassinate generals, he's going to ban media outlets that he disagrees with, these are the people that are now preaching about anti-democrat amendments to the Constitution of the United States, as they fall on their fainting couches and are triggered, that somebody may actually apply the Constitution to the facts at hand on an insurrection that Donald Trump inspired, that he led, that he was responsible for."
"Again, so many of these people are serving jail time and Donald Trump is not, for one simple reason," he added. "Unlike Donald Trump, they are not rich and powerful. So, please, spare me the anti-democratic lectures. What a joke."
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