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MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough has some tough criticism of President Donald Trump after his Kansas rally speech. Scarborough says Trump made misleading claims about Kansas Democratic Senate nominee Adam Hamilton at a rally for Republican Sen. Roger Marshall on Monday, posing the question of whether Trump thinks his supporters possess common sense. He posed the question to Trump, asking how “stupid” he thinks his supporters are.
During the speech, Trump attacked Hamilton, the senior pastor of the Church of the Resurrection, the nation’s largest United Methodist congregation, claiming that Hamilton supports “flooding Kansas with unvetted refugees,” said the pastor “openly mocks Jesus” and accused him of using church money to fund “anti-religious transgender activities.”
Scarborough says Trump’s remarks are dangerous. “Everything you said there was a lie,” Scarborough said Tuesday on an episode of Morning Joe.The Kansas City Star reports that Hamilton does not support open borders and has said: “Dangerous criminals don’t belong here.”
Scarborough says it is “deeply offensive” for Trump to attack “the pastor of the largest Methodist church in America, who preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ.” He added: “If you listen to his sermons, that’s what he does, which is the antithesis of what Donald Trump does every day when he lies about people, when he’s angry, when he attacks other people — not for political differences, but just attacks them personally and spreads lies.”
Trump, his colleagues, and his supporters may see Hamilton as a threat. Just two years after Trump won Kansas by 16 points in his fight to regain the White House, republicans are fighting to maintain their power as the battle for one of its two seats in the US Senate is too close to call. The Guardian reports that Hamilton may be on track for a historic victory, as Kansas residents have not sent a representative of the party to the US Senate since 1932. If Hamilton wins, democrats will end republicans’ 94-year streak.
Ahead of the rally, Hamilton issues a public message welcoming the president to Kansas. He encouraged Trump to be open to the residents’ mounting concerns. “I hope you’ll hear from the people I listen to every week. A single mom in Wichita I spoke to last month who is working more hours than ever but still struggling to make ends meet due to high prices on fuel and food,” he wrote in part. “Or the farmers I’ve met with across the state who are worried about how much money they’re going to lose this year due to the war’s impact on diesel and fertilizer. Or the people who can no longer afford their health insurance.”