Morning Joe wonders how Trump will survive criminal counts: 'Surprised the guy is even still walking'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough wondered how Donald Trump would survive the criminal charges that could land him in prison for the rest of his life and the lawsuits posing an existential threat to his family business.

The twice-impeached former president faces 91 criminal counts in four jurisdictions and a New York judge found him liable for fraud this week, plunging the Trump Organization into receivership and eventual dissolution, and the "Morning Joe" host said those challenges clearly plagued his state of mind.

"I always thought if I had one count leveled against me, you know, the feds coming after me on one count, it would be hard to focus on anything than that," Scarborough said. "He has 91 counts, he has his business empire crumbling. It's hard to figure out how this guy who is 78, 77 or 78, hard to figure out how, you know, when I see him confusing 2016 with 2008 and confusing Obama with Clinton."

"I mean, I actually -- I can understand that," he added. "I'm surprised the guy is even still walking with, you know, 40 years of lies catching up with him all at once."

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Co-host Willie Geist agreed, saying it was quite likely that Trump could spend the rest of his life in prison once these cases finally go to trial.

"All the bluster and all the projection, there's a lot going on there in that mind of the man we're looking at there," Geist said. "We've talked to defense lawyers, who, some of them sympathetic to Donald Trump, said, 'I might be able to get you off nine counts, but 91, there's going to be something in there that sticks and so he's got to be very worried about that.'"

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