'Silence has been deafening': Morning Joe aims fury at specific set of ex-Trump officials
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out Donald Trump's former military leaders for remaining silent against the now-president's autocratic moves.
The "Morning Joe" host echoed comments from his colleague Nicolle Wallace, who said "no one's coming to save anybody" after seeing Presidents' Day demonstrations against the administration and its cuts to the government, and realizing that few prominent people have been willing to speak out against the president.
"There's something that you've actually been saying for some time," Scarborough told guest Anand Giridharadas. "It's something that you've been saying actually, before Donald Trump got re-elected, it's something you said right after Donald Trump got re-elected. The idea that we're looking around, and that's the sense I get when people call or when you talk to people. They're waiting for somebody to come down from above to save them from this, and nobody has answered that, you know, nobody's magically going to come down and take care of this.
"It's like you said, everybody is going to have to do it, everybody is going to have to stand up."
He singled out "60 Minutes" for praise for standing by their interview with Kamala Harris and the Wall Street Journal's editorial page criticism of some Trump moves, but he said some noteworthy critics have been holding their fire.
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"But let's look at Gen. [Mark] Milley," Scarborough said of the former chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff. "Here's a guy who had his portrait taken down at the Pentagon, somebody that had his security taken away from him, despite the fact that he's at the top of the Iranians' hit list, along with Donald Trump, because of [general Qasem] Soleimani's killing and where, I don't know, maybe I missed this, but we've talked about it. We've spoken out about it, but why is Gen. [Jim] Mattis – where's 'Mad Dog' Mattis? I haven't heard him say anything. Where are all the other generals that served with him, the admirals that served with him? Where are the people that served this man?"
"You don't become one of the highest-ranking soldiers of your generation without fighting a lot of fights, being in a lot of foxholes, either literally or figuratively, with a lot of band of brothers and sisters, and yet the silence has been deafening from active duty – of course, they they have a harder problem saying anything," Scarborough added.
"But even all the retired generals and admirals that served with him through the years – silence."
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