Trump is 'one step closer to jail' after 'incriminating and idiotic' Fox News interview: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough expressed astonishment at Donald Trump's "incoherent" interview on Fox News.

The former president sat down with broadcaster Bret Baier, who challenged him to explain why he had not returned classified materials to the National Archives until the FBI seized them, and the "Morning Joe" host said Trump didn't do himself any favors by insisting he had been too "busy" to sort through the tranche to separate out his golf attire and other personal items.

"Yeah, none of that is going to hold up in court," Scarborough said. "It was incoherent. I must say, incoherent, incriminating and stupid. I say that by saying Donald Trump actually wants people to believe that in his transcript, he is looking at a document and telling an aide, 'I can't declassify this now, I could have when I was president of the United States, but I can't now.' Later in the interview, why, in 2022 — he lost the election in 2020, in 2022, why did he hide the documents? Because he had golf shirts, clothing, pants and shoes inside cases with nuclear information, war plans against Iran, and some of America's greatest vulnerabilities, all in there with Mar-a-Lago golf shirts."

The ex-president always seems to be held to a different standard legally, Scarborough said, pointing to a Washington Postreport that showed the FBI resisted investigating his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, while Trump complains that he is being treated unfairly.

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"There is a double standard," he said. "There's one standard that every government official is held to, who would immediately be, you know, arrested, then there's the standard they held Donald Trump to. Dragged their feet for over a year, and the FBI dragging their feet, not even wanting to get these documents on nuclear secrets, not even wanting to go in to see all the boxes that he had, and Donald Trump saying, 'Oh, it's worse for me, this has never happened before.' Of course, it never happened because, again, he lost in 2020. In 2021, he is still lying. In 2022, he is still lying about having some of the most government secrets."

"Any member of Congress, from Ted Cruz to Bernie Sanders, that got briefed and took three documents — not all these boxes, not thousands but took three classified documents would get a call the next day from the FBI or they'd show up in their offices," Scarborough continued. "It'd be immediate. I was talking to a CIA analyst over the weekend who said if he mishandled one document, though he was a career CIA guy, he would lose his job that day. Might not get arrested for one, but they'd be there knocking on his door the next day. They give Trump years, year and a half, he keeps ignoring them. Now he goes on TV."

"We've sort of summarized Donald Trump's interview with Bret Baier last night as incoherent, incriminating and idiotic on so many levels," Scarborough concluded. "Talk about how he keeps putting himself one step closer to jail every time he does one of these rambling interviews."

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