'Absolute total lie': Morning Joe lights up JD Vance as a 'trash talker'
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough lit up JD Vance Monday after the vice president defended a military strike on a boat full of suspected drug smugglers near Venezuela.
Vance drew condemnation from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), among others, for insisting he "doesn't give a s--t" whether anyone considers the strike on the alleged cartel boat a "war crime." The "Morning Joe" host called the attack another example of the Trump administration's lies.
"Rand Paul, obviously, brings up a very important point, a chilling point, and on a much larger level, to have a vice president of the United States trying to just provoke on X, talking about, 'Oh, they want to send your kids to Russia' – nobody wants to send their kids to Russia to die, that's just a lie," Scarborough said. "It's just an absolute, total lie, and yet that somehow has justification for the celebration of using the military to blow up people in a boat without any due process whatsoever."
"The reason why Rand Paul started his his tweet for the uninitiated, if you're just looking at that tweet, he called him JD, quote, 'I don't give a s--t,' quote, Vance is, again, Vance's response," Scarborough added. "The vice president of the United States responds to somebody suggesting that it might be a war crime, and, and JD Vance, his response was, quote, 'I don't give a s--t.'"
Despite the widespread criticism, sources inside the administration say President Donald Trump and other top officials believe the strike was effective and will likely carry out similar attacks.
"The vice president seems to view his role as just trash talker," said MSNBC's co-host Jonathan Lemire. "He goes on, you know, social media all the time and picks fights with some, in this case a fellow Republican, but journalists and others, and maybe that speaks to the limits of the powers of the office, but but JD Vance, you know, it's certainly it's not just, it's childish, but also there are real concerns about the legality of this strike, and I did some reporting on this last week, as well, and this is a changing role for the United States military where it's fighting crime, if you will, like, these are drug smugglers, allegedly, although there's yet to be evidence produced as to exactly who these people were, what they had."
"Also, we're seeing the National Guard on the streets of the United States, in Washington for now, and we keep hearing threats about other cities, including the United States, invoking a Vietnam 'Apocalypse Now' reference about sending the U.S. military, now the Department of War, to Chicago in the days ahead, and I don't think this is going to end anytime soon."
Scarborough argued the strike was unjustified, and he said the administration's track record was poor.
"Targeting gangs, blowing them out of the water because they have decided unilaterally that they were gangs," Scarborough said. "Just like they decided unilaterally who were dangerous criminals, who were dangerous members of gangs that they shoved onto transport planes and took to a to a a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, because apparently these people had committed heinous crimes on the streets of the United States and were gang members, and again, after they get down there, we find out 75 [percent], 80 [percent], some news sources say up to 90 percent of the people rounded up off the streets, shoved onto those transport planes sent down to El Salvador, while judges are telling them to stop because they're not criminals, because they didn't get due process."
"We find out later that 75 [percent], 80 [percent], 90 [percent] of those people sent down to El Salvador, according to the news reports, were not people in gangs who had committed these crimes that the administration claimed that they did," Scarborough added.
"So now, instead of transporting them now, these alleged gang members are just being killed, shoot first and nobody's around to ask questions later."
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