Morning Joe and Mika demolish Trump apologists in devastating supercut video
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski hit back at Donald Trump apologists who downplayed his threats to democracy.
The "Morning Joe" hosts rolled an extended supercut of video clips showing Trump promising to be a dictator on Day One of his potential second presidency, as well as other authoritarian threats he's made in recent months, in response to columnists and talk show hosts whitewashing the Republican nominee's record.
"For those people that said, 'Oh, nothing happened in his first term,' yeah, Jan. 6 happened in his first term," Scarborough said. "The attempt to overthrow American democracy, to throw out a presidential election because he didn't like the outcome happened. All those things Mika said happened in the first term. There are people writing this weekend, oh, and on Bill Maher going, 'Oh, you know what? Nothing really happened in the first term, we got by it okay – we survived.'"
"Yeah, we survived, democracy survived in spite of Donald Trump," Scarborough added. "Democracy survived in spite of his efforts with federal courts, people in the media, local Republican officials in Michigan, in Georgia, in Pennsylvania. Yeah, we survived. We survived in spite of everything that Donald Trump tried to do in the first term."
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The former president continues to insist that election fraud cost him the 2020 election, although those claims have been disproven over and over, and he recently promised a gathering of conservative Christians that voting would not longer be necessary if he was re-elected.
"Is vowing to terminate the Constitution a threat to democracy?" Brzezinski said. "Trump did that in another social media post while rambling and lying about the 2020 election. Is refusing to admit he lost the last election and sowing doubt in the outcome of this election a threat to democracy? Trump has done that for years and refuses to accept he lost in 2020, in what top government and industry officials have called the most secure election in American history?"
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