MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski highlighted Donald Trump's personal shortcomings Friday – and encouraged President Joe Biden to make those failings a central focus of his campaign.
A new poll shows Trump opening up a nine-point lead in a matchup against the president, and the "Morning Joe" co-hosts called on Biden and his team to attack the twice-impeached, four-time-indicted ex-president and point out his troubling behavior, such as his insulting remarks about a severely wounded veteran.
"That's literally sick," Brzezinski said. "He's a sick man."
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"It's also sick, of course, that he said that people who died in wars were losers," Scarborough added. "This is what he's done, so, of course, it begs the question, these polls suggest that half of America is supporting a guy who says this about wounded warriors, who says he wants to terminate the Constitution."
"Cruel, sick and corrupt," Brzezinski said.
Scarborough then pointed to Trump's social media post calling for the execution of Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then he highlighted the former president's alleged crimes.
"[This is a man] who says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs should have been executed for telling China we're not going to attack them, just did not worry about it," Scarborough said.
"That steals nuclear secrets, that steals war plans for invasions of Iran, who a judge in New York State says that he raped a woman. You could go on and on and on, this is what we're dealing with, though, and I will say for those Democrats who are concerned about political strategy, when you're running against that, I'm not sure you should be talking so much about GDP growth rates and let nerds like me do that. I'm not sure you should be talking about the economy and their lives, they're not buying that. Talk about what you're running against."
