'The stupidity of it all': Joe Scarborough slams 'bizarre' antics of pro-Trump GOP senators
While Michael Cohen — Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer — was testifying during the former president's hush money/falsified business records trial on Monday, May 13, some of Trump's allies were voicing their support for him outside a Lower Manhattan courthouse.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), with Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) standing beside him, defended Trump vigorously. Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse, Tuberville attacked the jurors — implying that some of them were not U.S. citizens — and said it was a hardship for Trump to spend so much time in a "depressing" courtroom.
The next morning, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called Tuberville and Vance out — slamming Vance as a flip-flopper who was a scathing Trump critic in 2016 but is now hoping to be the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee's running mate.
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The "Morning Joe" host, a Never Trump conservative and former GOP congressman, said of "Hillbilly Elegy" author Vance, "He was the elite's elite…. Nobody remembers this stuff: J.D. Vance said, in 2016, that if you loved Jesus, you couldn't support Donald Trump. He didn't say that like in 2002 in Silicon Valley…. He said that in 2016 — if you love Jesus, if you are a Christian, you cannot support Donald Trump."
Scarborough continued, "Now, furiously, on the vice presidential treadmill, he has changed his mind and decided this is the most noble of men in his porn star trial in a very, very depressing courtroom."
In a mocking tone, the Never Trumper remarked that if Tuberville needed "a list of really great interior decorators," he could offer some suggestions.
Scarborough told his MSNBC colleagues Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire, "The stupidity of it all…. We have, in Tommy Tuberville, a man who gutted America's military readiness for a year — or tried to gut America's military readiness for a year. And generals, admirals, whether they were active or retired, were saying as much — that by holding up families, holding up officers from moving on to their next position, was completely decimating the readiness for some people."
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Scarborough added, "This guy giving anybody a lecture on morality, again, being obsessed with the interior decorating of a New York City courtroom? It is beyond bizarre."
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