After watching clips of special counsel John Durham fumbling through his answers yesterday -- and reportedly lying -- while being grilled by House Democrats during a nationally televised committee hearing, MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough threw up his hands and declared "I'm speechless."
As the clip ended co-host Mika Brzezinski exclaimed "Oh my God," as Scarbrough laughed and then proceeded to dismantle the prosecutor who was unable to answer several simple questions put to him by Democrats and professed ignorance about facts contained in Robert Mueller's report on the Trump's campaign's links to the Russians.
After a long pause after stating he was "speechless," Scarborough finally began by explaining, "The 'Wall Street Journal' editorial page and others who have been defending this man, who made a fool of himself repeatedly, who had 24 jurors humiliate him in two different cases, a guy that actually had no prosecutions, no convictions, after investigating the FBI to try to smear them. Not trying to, of course, smear Hillary Clinton. With the investigation of the investigators that took twice as long as the actual underlying investigation."
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"I mean, he's either foolish, he got early onset dementia, or he is operating in bad faith and has been from the very beginning," he added. "I don't think number one or number two are true. Let me note again, a 2020 report from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee said interactions between Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and a Russian intelligence officer represented, quote, 'a grave counterintelligence threat' -- he claimed he was ignorant about that. He claimed he was ignorant about WikiLeaks. He claimed he was ignorant about cutouts."
"John Durham, who was supposed to be leading an investigation on connections between Russia and Trump and whether the FBI went too far, claimed ignorance on all of it," he elaborated. "I must say, it sounded like he was a flack for Donald Trump. I must say, I have never, ever seen anything like that from a special counsel's testimony, especially from a man -- let us underline this, -- a man who had a really good reputation as a U.S. attorney before William Barr sent him on this -- down this rabbit trail. He completely humiliated himself."
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