Morning Joe buries 'pathetic' Speaker Mike Johnson for latest lie at Trump's bidding

MSNBC " Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough dropped the hammer on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) early Monday morning after the GOP leader announced his opposition to a proposed Senate border bill just hours after it was released.

Late Sunday, Johnson posted on social media, "I’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, 'the border never closes.' If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival."

According to Scarborough, Johnson is only doing it to appease Donald Trump who wants the border issue to remain a problem for President Joe Biden.

"He continued to lie," he said. "As Liz Cheney said, and he basically admitted, he was going around spreading a lie about January 6th, trying to get people to sign onto a letter that would continue the lie and help Ken Paxton spread the lie in Texas, he lied about that. He is lying about this, he knows. [Sen.] James Langford (R-OK) said, 'I wish they'd all read the bill. I wish they would understand how strong the bill is.'"

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"But the sad thing is, and it's pathetic, and we say things can be two things at once, I mean, the new speaker is both dangerous and pathetic," Scarborough exclaimed. "Dangerous because he has decided, and he said it publicly, we're going to put politics over stopping fentanyl from coming into the United States. We're going to put politics above allowing our border security to stop terrorists from coming into the United States. We're going to keep the border chaotic for at least another ten months because we want things to be as chaotic as possible for Joe Biden."

"It's just like Donald Trump saying he wants the economy to crash, there to be a Great Depression, and he wants Biden to be Herbert Hoover," he added.

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