Scarborough accuses Supreme Court of sitting back 'while America burns'

As critical of Donald Trump as Joe Scarborough was during his first presidency, the conservative MS NOW host has been even more critical of Trump since his return to the White House a year ago. And in recent weeks, Scarborough has been attacking Trump consistently over the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Minneapolis as well as his refusal to rule out the possibility of taking Greenland by force — which, Scarborough warns, could destroy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

During a Wednesday, January 21 broadcast of "Morning Joe," Scarborough lambasted both the U.S. Supreme Court and the GOP-controlled Congress for not doing more to rein Trump in.

Scarborough told fellow "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski and their colleague Jonathan Lemire, "Donald Trump only controls one-third of America's government. But how they sit back, how the Supreme Court continues to let him use tariffs as a threat instead of just putting out the d--- opinion and letting people know what the law is — not sure why you're dragging your feet, but it's…. making America weaker. Supreme Court: You're making America weaker by the day by what you allow the president to do internally, domestically."

Scarborough continued, "You're making America weaker by the day by what you're allowing him to do on the world stage, using tariffs improperly and illegally as a threat. And you just sit back and do nothing while America burns. And the same thing can be said for the United States congress and especially the Senate."

The former GOP congressman argued that Trump's disdain for Europe is damaging from both an economic standpoint and a national security standpoint.

Scarborough told Brzezinski and Lemire, "Republicans on Capitol Hill are such cowards…. People across the (Trump) Administration, they have such contempt for Europe. And they they're constantly mocking and ridiculing Europe. Europe are (our) allies. The EU and Great Britain, combined, have a larger GDP than China. Second largest GDP in the world."

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