MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out the conservative establishment for papering over Donald Trump's "crazy lies" to present him as a "normal" Republican presidential candidate.
The former president issued a statement claiming credit for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which Trump then claimed was supported by "everybody" – including, he said, "all legal scholars" of every political stripe – and the "Morning Joe" host skewered those assertions as ridiculous.
"There were many legal scholars across the spectrum that said [Roe] wasn't the most well-reasoned decision, but they weren't calling for the overturning of Roe v. Wade," Scarborough said. "More importantly, he talked about the will of the people – you can just look. I said this before, just look across the decades, one poll after another poll, when you ask people, do you want Roe v. Wade to be overturned, it's like 30 percent, 31 percent, 32 percent – it's always a radical minority. In the case of, do you want Roe v. Wade to stay in place? The number was 70 percent, 71 percent, 72 percent when the Supreme Court overturned it. That's false, he talks about the will of the people. What's so shocking here is, when you only have a third of the people wanting to overturn a constitutional precedent, you know, of... 50 years, that's a radical move, and, of course, the biggest lie out of all of that is the idea that Democrats are running around wanting babies to be executed after birth."
Co-host Mika Brzezinski shook her head in disgust in Trump's claims about so-called post-birth abortion, which would already be considered an illegal homicide in any state and carries no political support whatsoever.
"I mean, it's so stupid, it's difficult to get -- I mean, he's just so stupid," she said.
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Scarborough agreed, and then appeared to single out failed Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, who has sparred repeatedly with Brzezinski over what he calls late-term abortions.
"It's stupid," Scarborough said. "We had a Republican on this show, not going to name his name, and neither is Mika, where we were pressing and asking, how many abortions are performed in the third trimester? How many? 'I don't know, I don't know.' Well, you don't know because it's, like, next to zero, but Donald Trump lies, lies. I saw something talking about the fact that Donald Trump last week said that Joe Biden snorted cocaine before the State of the Union Address. Now, that would have been on the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, every other newspaper in America if he -- if anybody else, any other candidate running for president had said something so crazy. Everybody just blew past it."
"He's allowed to give these abortion statements, where he is lying through his teeth constantly, and people will try to make him sound like a normal candidate," Scarborough said. "'Oh, Trump came out saying that he's a champion of federalism and wants to keep it in the state level, he's for' -- no, you have to talk about the crazy lies, which is what the guy is doing every day and what he did in this speech. By the way, even though he was lying through his teeth constantly about abortion, he ended up pissing off people on both sides."
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