'Really?': MSNBC's Joe Scarborough scorches GOP lawmaker over smirky Trump endorsement

MSBC host Joe Scarborough went scorched earth on one GOP lawmaker over his smirky endorsement of Donald Trump on X, formerly known as Twitter, calling him out for ignoring all of the evidence that the former president has no business being returned to the Oval Office based upon the threats he has been making about his post-election plans.

Late Friday, after an appearance on Fox News, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) wrote on X: "I just endorsed Donald Trump. Whether you like Trump or not, Americans face a binary choice. Biden refuses to enforce our border, prosecutes his opponents, & embraces policies that make life unaffordable for hardworking Americans. I’ll take the mean tweets. I choose Trump."

Saturday morning the "Morning Joe" called out Lee for the glib "I’ll take the mean tweets," comment and told him he should know better than to say Trump is the only GOP option in 2024.

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"The mean tweets? Really? That’s all that bothers you?" Scarborough wrote. "What about the promises of a dictatorship, the execution of generals insufficiently loyal, the banning of news outlets insufficiently loyal, the jailing of political opponents, the termination of the US Constitution, the praise of Communist leaders across the globe? @NikkiHaley and @GovRonDeSantis don’t promise violent authoritarianism. They are not tyrants-in-waiting."

"This is not a binary choice and you know it," he concluded.