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Morning Joe fears a rocketship-flying billionaire would use Trump's playbook if Jan. 6 riot goes unpunished

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned that some rocketship-flying billionaire would take over the country using Donald Trump's playbook if the former president and his allies weren't punished for fomenting insurrection.

The House select panel issued another round of subpoenas for Trump's inner circle, but the "Morning Joe" host said the twice-impeached one-term president and his GOP allies were still challenging congressional authority -- and he said that posed a grave threat to democracy.

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Former colleagues say Ron DeSantis's surgeon general is 'a source of embarrassment': Rachel Maddow

Recently appointed Florida surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo has come under scrutiny recently over his claims to have served on boards and appointed to programs while a UCLA medical professor.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow revealed on her Monday show that while UCLA Medical School won't give the network and her research team any information, some of the employees, doctors, and former colleagues of Dr. Ladapo happily gave a statement.

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'Face of the fascist insurgency': Morning Joe torches Trump-loving 'fruit loop' Kari Lake

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough torched Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake as a "fascist" and "fruit loop" on Friday morning for insisting she would not have certified President Joe Biden's election win over nonexistent claims of fraud.

Lake, a former local news anchor who's become the GOP frontrunner, has drawn the endorsement of Donald Trump and conspiracy-mongering MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for pushing baseless claims of fraud, but the "Morning Joe" host declared her manifestly unfit to serve as governor.

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Morning Joe co-hosts mock ‘eerie silence’ from Republicans about election security after they pick up wins

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist noticed Republicans suddenly dropped their concerns over election security after racking up wins this year.

Republicans are celebrating Glenn Youngkin's victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race, which is seen as a bellwether for next year's midterm election, and in special elections for congressional seats, but the "Morning Joe" co-hosts wondered why they seemed to trust these results more than they did Donald Trump's loss one year ago.

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'Very bad night for Donald Trump': MSNBC's Morning Joe says Virginia election shows GOP how to move on from ex-president

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough declared the election wins of two Republican candidates a "very bad night for Donald Trump."

The twice-impeached one-term president claimed credit for Glenn Youngkin's win in Virginia, after his Democratic opponent made Trump a prominent campaign issue, but the "Morning Joe" host said the numbers just don't back that up.

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe bursts into laughter as GOP’s private loathing for Trump slips into view

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Donald Trump for getting locked out of Glenn Youngkin's campaign in the final days of the Virginia gubernatorial race.

Youngkin did not take part in a last-minute campaign call Monday night with Trump, who Democrat Terry McAuliffe has mentioned more than his GOP rival during the tightly contested race, and the "Morning Joe" host said that illustrates the private loathing Republicans feel for the twice-impeached one-term president they publicly fear.

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‘More deplorable by the day’: MSNBC's Morning Joe blasts Trump lawyer John Eastman’s pressure campaign against Pence

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Donald Trump legal adviser John Eastman for blaming former VP Mike Pence for the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The conservative attorney drafted a memo that laid out an unconstitutional strategy to overturn Trump's election loss, and the Washington Post reported that Eastman emailed a top Pence aid during the U.S. Capitol riot blaming the former vice president for the violence that ensued.

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'This is bull!' MSNBC's Morning Joe and Mika bash WSJ's attempt to clean up Trump's 'never-ending whack-a-mole of lies'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped the Wall Street Journal for running a lie-filled letter from Donald Trump and then attempting to clean up the mess with a fact check one day later.

The right-leaning newspaper refuted some of the twice-impeached one-term president's claims Thursday after facing fierce criticism for running the letter in the first place, and both "Morning Joe" hosts bashed the Journal for taking shots in its fact-check at "media clerics" who pushed allegedly "false Russia collusion claims."

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MSNBC's Morning Joe rips 'insurrectionist' GOP senators for 'defending people who made death threats'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed a pair of Republican senators for attacking attorney general Merrick Garland over a memo recommending prosecution for parents who threaten school board officials.

The attorney general appeared Wednesday for a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where one Republican after another made overheated complaints about the memo they claimed put a target on conservative parents, and the "Morning Joe" host singled out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for defending a parent who made a Nazi salute toward school officials to protest mask mandates.

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Officer Michael Fanone rips right-wing Republicans who claim to ‘love police’ — but not the ones hurt on Jan. 6

Officer Michael Fanone bashed right-wing Republicans who align themselves with police but seem unconcerned with accountability for the Donald Trump supporters who harmed officers during the U.S. Capitol riot.

The Washington, D.C., metropolitan police officer appeared Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where he condemned lawmakers who he believes are lying about the Jan. 6 insurrection and refusing to hold the former president and his allies accountable for stoking the violence with false claims about the election.

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Trump called Willard Hotel 'war room' as allies plotted coup on 'eerie' night before Capitol riot: author

Donald Trump called into the "war room" set up at the Willard Hotel as some of his chief allies coordinated efforts to block the certification of Joe Biden's election win, according to a reporter who was present.

Washington Post reporter Robert Costa, co-author of the book "Peril" with his colleague Bob Woodward, was outside the hotel on Jan. 5 as Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and others gathered inside ahead of the "Save America" rally, and only now does he recognize the significance of what happened at that time.

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Ron DeSantis’ latest ‘intellectually bankrupt’ stunt shows why the GOP can’t come back from Trump: Morning Joe

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to offer $5,000 bonuses to persuade anti-vaccine police officers to move to Florida, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said that showed Republicans wouldn't be moving beyond Trumpism any time soon.

The Florida Republican, who's considered the face of the post-Donald Trump GOP, wants to encourage police officers who lost their jobs for refusing to comply with vaccine mandates to move to his state, and the "Morning Joe" host blasted DeSantis.

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Here's why Trump may not really want to be president again

Some allies believe Donald Trump may prefer being the former president than shouldering the burden of serving another term as chief executive.

Vanity Fair reporter David Drucker, author of "In Trump's Shadow," told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that some of the twice-impeached one-term president's associates doubt that he'll mount another campaign for the White House in 2024.

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