MSNBC's John Heilemann on Wednesday couldn't hide his contempt for Republican complaints that Hunter Biden got a "sweetheart deal" from a Trump-appointed prosecutor this week when he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax fraud charges.
While discussing the plea deal on "Morning Joe," Heilemann argued that it was inconceivable that former President Donald Trump would have left in a prosecutor appointed by a Democratic president who was investigating his own son the way that Biden did.
"Can you imagine an Obama-appointed prosecutor looking into one of the Trump kids... and [Trump] saying, 'You know what, for matters of perception, I'm going to leave in Obama prosecutor in to look at Don Jr. because I want to make sure everyone has full faith in the legal system and it not be politicized.' It's like a hallucinatory fantasy that that could happen!"
Given all this, Heilemann said that GOP complaints about the "sweetheart" plea deal should be regarded as disingenuous.
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"Guys -- you just sound like morons when you say these things," he said.
A little bit later, host Joe Scarborough played a clip of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) trying to dodge questions from a reporter who asked him if he really thought a Trump-appointed prosecutor had given Hunter Biden special treatment.
"Here's how Republicans humiliated themselves yesterday," Scarborough commented.
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