The entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," piled on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Friday morning for rushing to Donald Trump's defense after the former president was convicted of 34 felonies in a Manhattan courtroom.
After the jury returned its verdict, the Florida senator rushed out a video where he compared Trump's conviction for financial fraud related to paying off a porn star to Fidel Castro's Cuba.
After MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin called out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his "grotesque" comments about the jury's decision — adding that Republicans were engaging in "competitive sycophancy" — co-host Joe Scarborough brought up Rubio whom he also labeled "grotesque."
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"Speaking of grotesque, if a guy whose family escaped Castro's Cuba, communist Cuba, a country that Castro ran with an iron fist, there was no rule of law there. There was just repression. There was tyranny," Scarborough interjected with co-host Mika Brzezinski adding, "What an insult."
"Marco, like these other people, all because they want to cozy up to Donald Trump and maybe be his vice president, they degrade themselves, and they slander America," Scarborough continued. "Rubio said in the E. Jean Carroll case, a jury of his peers was a joke because he didn't like the outcome. Now, he is comparing America to Castro's Cuba, which I will say, yes, it's meant to kiss up to Donald Trump and shock everybody else. Doesn't shock me."
"It hurts me as a patriot to hear people hating on America, but I do know at the end of the day, it's only going to end up hurting Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, and the Republican party even more, because people don't buy their propaganda," he added.
That led MSNBC contributor Katty Kay to assert, "Yeah. I mean, Marco Rubio of all people knows that this is absurd. The American justice system is not remotely like Cuba's justice system where there is no system of justice. He knows that, and he is only doing this to suck up to Donald Trump."
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