MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned Donald Trump's latest remarks about the Civil War and bashed conservatives who continue to run cover for his outrageous statements and behavior.
The twice-impeached former president, who has been disqualified from the ballot in two states under the Constitution's insurrectionist clause, suggested in a campaign speech over the weekend that Abraham Lincoln should have negotiated an eventual end to slavery to avert bloodshed, and the "Morning Joe" host was appalled.
"Nikki Haley says something really screwed up, refuses to even talk about slavery, and the media talks about that for weeks," Scarborough said. "Donald Trump just blamed Abraham Lincoln for the Civil War because he would not negotiate slavery with the South. What Donald Trump was saying there was, you know, Lincoln should have just let southerners continue to have slaves. Because he didn't, Abraham Lincoln caused the Civil War."
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Scarborough called out conservative media outlets and other Republicans who downplay Trump's egregious behavior by attacking accurate coverage of his remarks and actions.
"Yet you watch these jackasses that write their newsletters, these jackasses that write op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and other – these jackasses on cable networks who say, 'You know, it is Trump derangement syndrome, that is actually powering Donald Trump,'" Scarborough said. "Instead of saying, you know, if a guy wants to be president of the United States and is blaming Abraham Lincoln for the Civil War because Lincoln refused to allow slavery to continue, maybe that's something we should focus on every day, along with all of the other deranged things this lunatic says."
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