Morning Joe rips far-right reporters 'spouting lies' to 'people too stupid to know the truth'

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Thursday blasted Mike Lindell’s Lindel TV, OAN and other Republican subsidiaries for broadcasting lies to the American public under the cover of “real news.”

Scarborough’s “Morning Joe” rant began with a clip of a LindellTV entertainer asking Sen. Nancy Pelosi (R-Calif.) why she agreed to do a thing she never did.

“Are you at all concerned about the new Jan. 6 Committee finding you liable for that day?” the reporter asked Pelosi. “Why did you refuse the National Guard on Jan. 6?”

In truth, Pelosi did not deny National Guard troops during the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. As Speaker of the House, Pelosi does not have the authority to direct or deny National Guard deployment. Multiple sources, including fact-checks by the Associated Press and PolitiFact, confirm that Pelosi was not involved in rejecting any requests for National Guard assistance. Instead, records show Pelosi, along with then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, called for military assistance.

However, President Donald Trump and MAGA reporters purport the debunked argument that she did.

Pelosi, apparently tired of the false claim, told the LindellTV reporter to “shut up.”

“I did not refuse the National Guard," she said. "The president didn't send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you're a serious journalist?”

“The American people want to know,” the reporter said. “We still have questions.”

“What the American people want to know is why so many people are too stupid to know the truth. That's what the American people want to know,” Scarborough said. “They're fed disinformation by Lindell network and by all these other right-wing networks, like this lie [that] Nancy Pelosi refused? No, that's a lie. But it's amazing how these lies become truth. And that’s in part because more Democrats don't do what Nancy Pelosi just did right there. The lies are everywhere on the far right, and they’re all around Jan. 6.”

“And the lies continue,” Scarborough added. “[The Republicans] are doing investigations where there are lies. We're going to see the president talking about investigating the investigators again after they spent years with [special counsel for the United States Department of Justice] John Durham doing the same thing, spending millions and millions of taxpayers pursuing lies.”

“This is the American people know,” Scarborough concluded. “The American people know there are a group of people who intentionally want to believe lies on the MAGA right. It's like.Jesus said: 'There are people who could go into the light, but they choose the darkness instead.'"

"So they keep spouting lies to Nancy Pelosi and other people about Jan 6th, when they know the truth," Scarborough said. "They've even tried to erase the attempt to throw out a presidential election from their minds.”