After running an ad from President Joe Biden's campaign highlighting Donald Trump's ugly and appalling criticisms of American service members, "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski launched into a brutal rebuke of the former president and his GOP supporters that left Joe Scarborough searching for words.
Jumping right into it, Brzeezski addressed the viewers, exclaiming, "How is it that these Republicans in Congress and some in the Senate and these presidential candidates can stand by and say nothing about a man who would say something like that about our veterans? What was it? About our dead -- our dead soldiers? 'What was in it for them, they're losers?'"
"Like how do we go on without just asking about that?" she continued as her voice began to break. "I know sort of like the litmus test is was the election stolen? There are a million others, things like that that Donald Trump has said. The cruelty is the point; it leads to all authoritarianism. It leads to what he wants to do to our government."
"And if you don't want to believe that, that's fine," she explained. "But let me ask you, Republicans in that audience or in Congress or on the debate stage, can you stand by and support a man who would say that about our veterans? I want that question asked. Why are they given a pass?"
After a brief pause, Scarborough interjected and said, "They're not given a pass," which led his co-host to shoot back, "They're not asked about it — it just goes by."
Scarborough once again paused before finally claiming, "They're always asked how can you support Donald Trump to be nominee, and the answer is they can't — they can't say the truth."
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