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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski hit back at Donald Trump apologists who downplayed his threats to democracy.

The "Morning Joe" hosts rolled an extended supercut of video clips showing Trump promising to be a dictator on Day One of his potential second presidency, as well as other authoritarian threats he's made in recent months, in response to columnists and talk show hosts whitewashing the Republican nominee's record.

"For those people that said, 'Oh, nothing happened in his first term,' yeah, Jan. 6 happened in his first term," Scarborough said. "The attempt to overthrow American democracy, to throw out a presidential election because he didn't like the outcome happened. All those things Mika said happened in the first term. There are people writing this weekend, oh, and on Bill Maher going, 'Oh, you know what? Nothing really happened in the first term, we got by it okay – we survived.'"...

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped into critics on Monday over claims that Kamala Harris hasn't revealed enough information about her policies.

The "Morning Joe" host bashed a pair of conservative columnists — Bret Stephens of the New York Times and Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal — who have complained that Harris talks too much about her background and not enough about policy specifics.

"That's a lie, an absolute lie," Scarborough said. "It ignores what politicians have been doing for hundreds of years."...

Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump laid much of the blame for her uncle's pathologies on her grandparents, especially her "sociopath" grandfather — the ex-president's dad.

She appeared Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss her new book, “Who Could Ever Love You," that details the dynamics within her deeply dysfunctional family.

"Fred Trump, as I say, was a straight-up sociopath, and I mean that diagnostically, not colloquially," said Trump, a clinical psychologist. ...

Donald Trump is setting the stage for another violent response to his possible election loss, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire argued Monday morning.

The former president again pledged over the weekend to pardon Jan. 6 rioters as one of his first acts in office if re-elected to a second term, prompting the "Morning Joe" host to express alarm that Trump may be already encouraging supporters to react to a potential loss with more violence.

"When Donald Trump calls these people patriots, and more damningly says he is going to pardon people who beat the hell out of police officers, and you have audiences cheering in America, what does that tell you?" Scarborough said. ...

Former high-ranking national security officials have endorsed Kamala Harris over Donald Trump, and one of them explained to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" why the Republican nominee is a threat to the nation.

Retired U.S. Navy admiral Steve Abbott, who served as deputy Homeland Security secretary under George W. Bush, was among the bipartisan group National Security Leaders for America, which consists of more than 700 former and retired senior military leaders and public servants who denounced the Republican nominee and recommended the election of Harris to succeed Joe Biden as the next president.

"She's traveled extensively, interacted with leaders around the world in many, many countries, and she has been with president Biden for three and a half years in the Oval Office and in the situation room dealing with national security issues, so she has the experience that she needs," Abbott said. "She's been a strong proponent of our position with respect to Ukraine, the support of Ukraine against the Russian invasion, strengthen NATO, make it larger and more effective than it's ever been, and she understands our strategic concerns in the Indo-Pacific, in South America, in Africa, in all of the regions of the world. She's well-positioned to take on the responsibilities as president and commander-in-chief."...

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned that Donald Trump is already ramping up his election lies over fraud because he doesn't believe he'll win fair and square.

The Republican nominee repeatedly suggested over the weekend that the election would be stolen from him after making similar claims before the 2020 vote, and the "Morning Joe" host said Trump was setting the stage to attempt to overturn his potential loss in November.

"Donald Trump's own staff members watched in 2020, and do you know what they said?" Scarborough asked. "The person who was in charge of actually watching the election, that Donald Trump put in charge, Chris Krebs said it was the cleanest, fairest election on record. ...

People in President Donald Trump’s orbit noticed an unsettling change after Republicans were dealt crushing midterm losses, according to author Michael Wolff.

Wolff, a journalist who has written several books about Trump, said on Thursday’s episode of “Inside Trump’s Head” that sources described a visible change in the president after Tuesday’s election, when Democrats seized control of both the House and Senate.

“The other interesting thing that I heard from two people, and they found it interesting and a little frightening, was that the day after he seemed markedly older,” Wolff told co-host Joanna Coles....

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart had nothing but praise for “60 Minutes” personality Ross Douthat for his follow-up questions with Donald Trump in an interview aired Sunday night.

But what he really enjoyed was getting the president defending making money hand over fist with a question asked about former President Joe Biden, often called “Sleepy Joe” by Trump when he attempts to malign the former president’s mental acuity.

In the clip, at about the 6:45 minute mark, Douthat brought up reports that Trump now has a net worth of about $3 billion as he makes business deals while sitting in the Oval Office....

An election lawyer fresh from a deep-red state's ballot count says one embattled MAGA senator has hit a dead end.

Norm Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who served as counsel to House Democrats during President Donald Trump's first impeachment, told progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen in a Saturday episode of his YouTube show that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) has no realistic path left to beat Democratic challenger Scott Colom. "It's a mathematical impossibility at this point for Senator Hyde-Smith," Eisen said.

Eisen, who said he spent three days in Mississippi and planned to head back the next day, pegged Colom's lead as "approaching a 3,000-vote margin." He compared the count to the 2000 Florida recount he worked on, when the gap bounced around in the hundreds....