Joe Scarborough Reacts to Trump’s ‘Shooting At’ Liz Cheney Quip By Blasting Newspapers Who Refused to Endorse
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough unleashed on newspapers who refused to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday as he reacted to former President Donald Trump’s “shooting” quip about former GOP congresswoman Liz Cheney.
The comments were made late Thursday in Arizona during a campaign event with Tucker Carlson when Trump took a swipe at Cheney, a high-profile GOP surrogate for Harris, branding her a “warhawk” and imagining her “with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.”
Trump told the crowd: “Let’s put her with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
The former president expanded on his criticism, claiming politicians like Cheney support conflicts from the safety of Washington, D.C., without personal risk.
“You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh gee, well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,” Trump said.
On Friday morning, in reaction, shared the Drudge Report’s top headline, which read “Trump Calls For Cheney Execution.” Sharing the homepage on screen, Scarborough proceeded to slam newspapers who had refused to endorse a candidate in the election and, again, attacked the Wall Street Journal’s mockery of the “fascist meme” it argued was being manufactured around Trump.
‘Nine barrels shooting at her face.’ This is, again, I want the Wall Street Journal editorial page to look at this. We’ve been spending a lot of time, rightly, about The Washington Post bending to the will of Donald Trump, and the Los Angeles Times bending to the will of Donald Trump. Actually banning… keep that up [the Drudge front page]… actually banning… keep that up, please… Actually banning editorials where their editorial team calls for Harris’s selection.
But let’s go back to the Wall Street Journal, who I have noted and I read to you every day, whether you want to hear it or not, I have. Because for most of the time, they have actually called out Donald Trump. But as we go to the final weeks of the campaign, Donald Trump goes on Bloomberg. He says the Wall Street Journal always gets it wrong. Says he is going to talk to Murdoch. Then what happens? They start making fun of people who are concerned about Donald Trump and his calls for violence. They laugh and jokingly say – this is, again, after Donald Trump has attacked them and says he is having a meeting with Rupert Murdoch – they write an editorial on Monday talking about a ‘fascist meme’, as if saying, ‘I’m going to use my military troops and I’m going to use my National Guard to attack my democratic political opponents’, as if that is a meme.
And then a few days later, as if they haven’t already humiliated themselves enough, Donald Trump keeps talking about violence against his political opponent. And they write another op-ed saying to all the billionaires reading and all of the guys driving around Maseratis, who have doubled their fortunes while going to country clubs, calling Kamala Harris a socialist, they double down and say: ‘There is nothing to see here. Why, the Democrats have been far worse.’
Then we see this. I wonder, can we put this up again, please? I wonder, Wall Street Journal editorial page, does this look like a meme to you?
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