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'Ever done a focus group with Black people?’ Morning Joe sparks fury with segment on Trump voters and George Floyd

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" hosted pollster Frank Luntz and New York Times deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy to discuss their widely criticized focus group with Donald Trump voters to discuss the murder of George Floyd.

The Minneapolis police killing set off a summer of protests that conservatives, in general, and Fox News viewers, in particular, believe were orgies of violence in the nation's cities, and Healy lamented that so many of the opinions he and Luntz heard were based on false information.

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe notices something ‘strange’ about the GOP ‘personality cult’

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough noticed something "strange" about the "personality cult" that has developed around former president Donald Trump in the Republican Party.

The GOP has lost control of the House, Senate and White House since Trump was first elected, but the "Morning Joe" host said the more they lose, the more they seem to love the twice-impeached one-term president.

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‘Leave our country!’ Morning Joe blasts friends and family still questioning Trump’s election loss

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough lashed out at his friends and family members who are still clinging to the lie that Donald Trump had the election stolen from him.

The "Morning Joe" host spent much of Friday's broadcast railing against the people who once insisted, "America -- love it or leave it," and he said that questioning President Joe Biden's legitimacy based on the flimsiest possible evidence was an insult to the Constitution and democracy itself.

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‘This is outrageous!’ Morning Joe thumps Arizona for letting conspiracy theorists tamper with voting machines before 2022 elections

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Arizona officials for allowing shady conspiracy theorists to handle voting machines that might be used for next year's midterm elections.

The state's top election official urged Maricopa County to replace hundreds of voting machines that had been examined by the Cyber Ninjas firm as part of the GOP-backed review of Donald Trump's election loss, which the "Morning Joe" host said never should have happened in the first place.

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Morning Joe and Michael Steele blast GOP ‘hypocrites’ lying about getting vaccines: ‘It’s antisocial’

House Republicans are balking against continued masking rules, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele said they could end the mandate by getting vaccinated or proving that they already had.

Democratic lawmakers voted 218-210 to keep masking in place, saying they were tired of wearing face coverings, too, but expressing concern that their GOP colleagues might still be able to spread the virus.

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Normally CEOs don't go to jail — here's why a former FBI official says Trump Organization 'people will go to prison'

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi, former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal and Donald Trump biographer Tim O'Brien all spoke to the new revelation that the New York attorney general joined the Manhattan D.A.'s case against the former president.

"I think Trump has misjudged his exposure here," said Figliuzzi. "There's hubris here and there's just bad gambling luck. So, with folks like [Paul] Manafort, [Roger] Stone, he believed that he could control them. That they were disloyal enough that he didn't trust them and needed to dangle the pardons. That he needed the pardons and commutations. I think he misjudged [CFO Allen] Weisselberg and others. I think he thought he was Teflon, this wouldn't happen. He was emboldened by [special counsel Robert] Mueller not going after his finances and I think he's misplayed this."

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House Dem reveals ‘troubling’ reason GOP’s Kevin McCarthy will ‘do everything’ to prevent Jan. 6 probe

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) revealed some "troubling" reasons why House Republicans are unwilling to allow an investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) backed out of an agreement that Thompson had negotiated with Rep. John Katko (R-NY), and the Mississippi Democrat told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he thinks his GOP colleagues are worried about what an investigation might turn up about about their own roles in the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol intended to overturn Donald Trump's election loss.

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‘This wasn’t a leak’: Morning Joe explains why New York’s Trump investigation is so serious

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has grown impatient, to put it mildly, with leaks from investigators promising comeuppance for one character or another -- but he said the New York attorney general's revelations about the Trump Organization are something different.

New York attorney general Letitia James' office announced the investigation of Donald Trump's family business now had a criminal component, in addition to an ongoing civil investigation, and the "Morning Joe" host explained why this felt different.

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Morning Joe and Mika shame Kevin McCarthy for protecting Jan. 6 'ringleader' Donald Trump

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski shamed House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and other GOP lawmakers for blocking an investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection that endangered their own lives.

Democrats are pushing for a bipartisan commission to examine the events that got former president Donald Trump impeached for a second time, after he incited supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn his election loss, but Republicans want to muddy the waters with unrelated topics -- if they want to probe the violent assault at all.

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Georgia's lieutenant governor reveals 'hundreds' of death threats from fellow Republicans over Trump lies

Georgia's lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan says he received disturbing threats from fellow Republicans for refusing to endorse Donald Trump's election lies.

The twice-impeached one-term president pressured Georgia's GOP governor, Brian Kemp, and secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to overturn his loss in that typically Republican state, and Duncan told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he paid a personal price for refusing to go along with the scheme.

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'Profoundly stupid': GOP's 'crazy and dishonest' war on Liz Cheney ripped by MSNBC conservative

MSNBC's Charlie Sykes slammed House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)'s "profoundly stupid" political war against Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).

The California Republican backed the removal of Cheney as GOP conference chair as punishment for her disloyalty to Donald Trump, and the conservative Sykes said the episode demonstrated the lowly depths to which the party has sunk under the control of the twice-impeached one-term president.

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe barks at producer for interrupting his rant about Trump-loving friends and family

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough barreled through a producer's commands as he ranted about Donald Trump ensnaring his relatives and longtime friends in a cult.

The "Morning Joe" host pondered how childhood friends and other loved ones he still trusts to do almost anything to help him would blindly follow a former president who repeatedly slurred him as a murderer, and Scarborough wondered how this could have happened.

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Liz Cheney being punished by GOP for 'telling the most basic of truths that every Trump judge' understands: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough lamented that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was being removed from her Republican Party leadership role simply because she refused to deny the obvious truth about President Joe Biden's election.

The "Morning Joe" host pointed to an op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post in February 2016, when he warned that Donald Trump would destroy the Republican Party nominated him for president -- and he said that now-corrupted GOP was on the verge of taking down U.S. democracy with its own downfall.

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