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'Beyond stupid': Morning Joe mocks Trump's reaction to Georgia report

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ridiculed former President Donald Trump's insistence that a Georgia special grand jury report had exonerated him.

The panel recommended perjury charges for at least one witness in the investigation and concluded there had been no widespread voter fraud, which undercuts the former president's only defense in the case, but Trump issued a statement on Truth Social thanking the special grand jury for their "total exoneration," which he credited to their "patriotism and courage."

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Trump allies should be worried about Georgia prosecutor: ‘She knows what they said under oath’

The special grand jury report may not have offered any bombshell evidence against Donald Trump and his allies, but a legal expert explained that it showed just enough to suggest trouble on the horizon.

The Fulton County special grand jury issued a nine-page report the concluded there had been no widespread election fraud in Georgia's presidential election in 2020, and they believed at least one of the witnesses who testified before them should be indicted for perjury, and MSNBC legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg said district attorney Fani Willis might have all she needs to press charges.

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Pence’s ‘preposterous’ refusal to testify about Jan. 6 doomed to fail: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned former Vice President Mike Pence for vowing to fight a subpoena to testify about his conversations with Donald Trump ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The former vice president called the subpoena from special counsel Jack Smith "unprecedented and unconstitutional," but the "Morning Joe" host said Pence owed Americans a full accounting of Trump's effort to unlawfully overturn his election loss and remain in power.

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'Dumbest' Trump lawyer excuse ever picked apart by Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has heard some ridiculous explanations from Donald Trump's lawyers, but he was flabbergasted by a new excuse trotted out for keeping a classified folder on his bedroom nightstand.

Timothy Parlatore, who represents the former president in the special counsel probe, told CNN that Trump kept an empty manila folder marked "Classified Evening Summary" after the Department of Justice issued a subpoena for its return because he used it to block the light on a landline telephone at his bedside.

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'Nail in the coffin' for Trump after secret 2020 vote analysis revealed: legal analyst

Donald Trump's campaign paid researchers to prove his election fraud claims in the final weeks of 2020 but were unable to find the evidence he sought, and a legal expert analyzed the significance of these new revelations.

Berkeley Research Group studied presidential election results in six states looking for evidence of fraud or other irregularities to present in court challenges ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection, but their findings were never released because the firm disputed Trump's theories about his loss to Joe Biden.

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Trump-bashing governor tap dances around pledge to vote for whoever wins GOP nomination

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu thinks Donald Trump might be "crazy," but he wouldn't rule out voting for him in 2024.

The potential GOP challenger confidently declared the former president would not win the Republican nomination next year, but he refused to tell MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist that he would vote for President Joe Biden or another Democrat if Trump did somehow emerge as party's standard bearer.

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Morning Joe panelists cackle as 'Mitch McConnell kills another Republican senator'

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" cackled at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sticking a knife in his biggest would-be Republican rival.

President Joe Biden called out Sen. Rick Scott's plan to wind down Social Security and Medicare during his State of the Union speech, and he has continued to remind supporters of the proposal floated by the Florida Republican -- who mounted an unsuccessful challenge against McConnell for the top seat on the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

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Ex-Trump official squirms when Morning Joe hosts corner him on Jan. 6 insurrection

Donald Trump's post-election acting secretary of defense refused to denounce the former president under questioning on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

Christopher Miller, who served as defense secretary from Nov. 9, 2020, until Jan. 20, 2021, filibustered when asked a direct question about the ex-president's role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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Morning Joe gloats after GOP's Twitter probe backfires: 'Made fools of themselves again'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked House Republicans after their hearing on Twitter's content moderation blew up in their faces.

The House Oversight Committee hauled former officials from the social media platform before a hearing to investigate whether conservative voices and causes were unfairly suppressed, but the witnesses instead testified that Twitter changed its own rules to allow Donald Trump to hurl racist abuse at his political opponents.

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'Weird dystopian' Sarah Sanders speech baffles Morning Joe panelists

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" struggled to make sense of Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' rebuttal to President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech.

The newly elected Republican governor and former Donald Trump press secretary focused on right-wing grievances about the "woke mob," and made allusions to satanic conspiracy theories about dark "rituals" during her Republican response to the president's speech.

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Republicans ‘acting like jackasses’ because Biden nailed them on Social Security: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out Republicans for acting foolish when confronted by President Joe Biden for proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

The president urged Congress to protect the broadly popular social programs, saying "some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset," which prompted literal howls from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and a handful of GOP lawmakers, but the "Morning Joe" host said Biden's claim was on the mark.

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'Lot of warning signs' for Trump's 2024 campaign: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough isn't ready to count out Donald Trump for 2024, but he sees a lot of "warning signs" that should concern his supporters.

The "Morning Joe" host recalled the grassroots enthusiasm for the former reality TV star's first campaign, when crowds lined up around coliseums to pack into his rallies, but excitement has faded along with the support he needs from the Republican Party's donor class.

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Morning Joe wallops conservative group’s ‘shameless hackery’ for finally turning on Trump

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough hammered his old friends at the conservative Club for Growth for finally turning on Donald Trump.

The anti-tax group invited a half-dozen potential Republican presidential candidates to its annual retreat next month, saying they offered a better chance of winning back the White House in 2024, but the "Morning Joe" host said they'd abandoned their founding principles early in Trump's presidency.

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