Morning Joe rages at Republicans 'lying through their teeth'

“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough has clearly had it with what he calls Republican attempts to distract from the party’s collapsing agenda.

“It's just nonsensical,” Scarborough said on Friday while speaking of President Donald Trump and Republicans’ efforts to accuse Democrats of “sedition” for urging troops to obey the law. “Donald Trump, because he's trying to distract from the [Jeffrey] Epstein files, he's trying to distract from the fact that he has the lowest approval rating that he's had in the second term. He's trying to distract from the fact that Democrats have the largest generic ballot lead that I can remember in my lifetime — 54-to-41—he’s trying to distract from the fact that only one in three Americans say they think Trump is handling the government the right way. You can go on and on and on. … So, what do they do? They just say, ‘hey, these senators should be executed’ because they're actually citing law that you can't commit illegal actions.”

Scarborough reserved particular scorn for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who joined Trump in demonizing Democrats’ video request to service members.

“What I'm saying, what I will say unequivocally, is that was a wildly inappropriate thing for so-called leaders in Congress to do to encourage young troops to disobey orders,” Johnson told a press gaggle on Thursday. “I mean, think of what the threat that is to our national security and what it means to our institutions. I just—we have got to raise the bar in Congress.”

“He lies so pretty,” Scarborough said. “I mean, it's so, so easy for [Johnson] to lie. Clutching the pearls. It was very rude of those press members to be crowding all around [when] he had … the most beautiful pink satin fainting couch with all the frills. He was going to just flop over. He was so shocked and stunned.”

“These people are lying through their … through their teeth,” Scarborough added. “… These people are lying through their teeth. Mike Johnson knows that this is all about what military men and women need to do to uphold their sacred oath, and that is not commit illegal actions. And they know that. And yet they keep lying through their teeth.”