Morning Joe gloats as Trump allies flip: All fun and games until you follow him to prison
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough exulted as more Donald Trump allies have flipped against him in criminal cases involving his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Jenna Ellis on Tuesday became the third Trump attorney to plead guilty in the Georgia election interference case, joining Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, and sources confirmed that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had been granted immunity to testify against the former president in special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 case.
"This is sort of the 'Christmas Story' metaphor that I'm sure every great legal mind across America has been thinking – the BB gun, it's all a lot of fun until it puts somebody's eyes out," the "Morning Joe" host said. "While they're running around playing, following Trump, thinking, 'Oh look what he's saying, he's getting away with, this is fun, we're getting to own the libs, we're getting to own the press.'"
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"Oh my God, talk about a feeling of immunity," Scarborough added. "They felt like they had an immunity not only from the law but the truth. They could say anything because this guy was the president of the United States and he was lying everyday and sending out lawyers to lie everyday, say horrible things about federal judges, completely undermine the rule of law, or at least they thought in their mind they could. They thought they could lie their way out of a presidential election, and then they wake up and suddenly they see the charges are coming. It may have been a shock to some of these lawyers. You try to overturn an American election, well, law is coming after you. We are a nation of laws, not a nation of men."
Now that the former president's allies have been indicted for their role in the election scheme, many of them have determined they're not willing to spend time in prison to protect him.
"So we heard it from Jenna Ellis a couple weeks ago – 'Listen, I'm not, I don't have money, I don't have money like all these other people, I'm not going to sit here and blindly defend Donald Trump, he's a narcissist, he's crazy, I wouldn't vote for him again,'" Scarborough said. "Suddenly it's all fun and games until it's not. She decided -- I'm sure family members around her had to say, 'You have to protect yourself, stop lying for this man. Same thing for Mark Meadows. I'm not privy to anything that Mark and his family says, but what do you think his wife and children said to him? Really? Like, you've been following this guy around for years and you're going to follow him to prison?"
"It's one thing to be making sh*t up outside of a courtroom," Scarborough added. "It's another thing to say that in a courtroom."
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