MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out the Republican presidential candidates who failed to address Donald Trump's social media threats and legal troubles.
The former president -- and current GOP frontrunner -- did not take part in Wednesday night's debate, and the "Morning Joe" host questioned why his would-be rivals did not mention his death threat against Gen. Mark Milley or this week's ruling finding Trump and his sons liable for fraud.
"It's so discouraging," Scarborough said. "Donald Trump has sent that signal out. It's just will like the Wall Street Journal editorial page said, and many others have said, that he's sending the message out. Certainly, it is possible that some crank is going to follow through on that. It's the same thing that he said about Mitch McConnell. It's the same thing he said about, well, about me. It's the same thing he said about so many people."
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"Donald Trump knows exactly what he's doing," he added. "That's why he starts talking about somebody being executed, when Mitch McConnell, it's 'death wish' in all caps. It's a message, yet nobody at Fox News last night thought that was worthy of a question to ask, even if their partners at the Wall Street Journal did that morning. Nobody thought it necessary to ask about banning NBC News once Donald Trump became president of the United States again, if he got elected again. Nobody thought about any of that."
A New York judge found the Trump Organization liable for fraud in the state attorney general's $250 million lawsuit and stripped the company of its business licenses and will place it under a receiver to manage the dissolution of its corporate entities, and Scarborough wondered why that didn't come up at the debate.
"Those things were all teed up," Scarborough said. "I'm not really sure how those questions couldn't have been asked. More to the point, I think it's just absolute insanity that the people that are running against Donald Trump didn't bring it up on stage. Couldn't -- I mean, those -- I mean, at some point, you're going to have somebody smart enough to find another lane and challenge this guy, or they're just going to meekly keep, like, sort of, like quislings, following behind him. They do absolutely nothing."
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