Joe Scarborough Deplores Kari Lake for Encouraging Violence By Telling Rally-Goers to ‘Strap on a Glock’
Joe Scarborough lamented recent rhetoric from Kari Lake and Senator Tom Cotton, which seemed to encourage violent action from their political supporters.
During an Arizona rally on Sunday, Lake said to the assembled supporters:
The next six months are going to be intense, and we need to strap on our; let’s see, what do we want to strap on? We’re going to strap on our pair of seatbelts. We’re going to put on our helmet or your Kari Lake ball cap. We are going to put on the armor of God. maybe strap on a Glock on the side, in case. You can put one here and one in the back or one in the front, whatever you guys decide, because we’re not going to be the victims of crime. We’re not going to have our Second Amendment taken away. We’re certainly not going to have our First Amendment taken away by these tyrants.
Morning Joe producers aired that clip, which was followed by Sen. Cotton doubling down on his appeal that citizens forcibly remove pro-Palestinian protestors who have recently taken to blocking traffic on bridges and airports around the nation.
Willie Geist followed by noting, “Senator Cotton maintains he’s not calling for violence against the protesters, but did share a video on Twitter showing a group of men dragging protesters off the road, with the senator captioning quote, ‘How it should be done.'”
Scarborough followed by giving Cotton a tiny bit of credit before getting to the heart of what he said. “He can’t really step out of the fact that he was talking about ripping the skin off of people’s hands,” the Morning Joe host said. “He was talking about throwing people off the Golden Gate Bridge. I mean, he this happened on the Golden Gate Bridge said, well, and would throw him over the bridge. That’s where they need to do that. They need to. And so you have again him talking about violence.”
“And you just ask yourself what, why? Why is a politician think that’s the road to to popularity? Kari Lake talks about the Armor of God and carrying a Glock for some reason, without audience carrying a Glock gets a bigger chair than the armor of God,” Scarborough said pivoting to Lake, eventually ridiculing her mocking of former President Donald Trump’s political rhetoric.
“So, this is again this is just, again, the glorification of violence,” he concluded, “And the big question is, why does this glorification of violence sell so well in Donald Trump’s Republican Party? It’s it, it’s it’s sick, it’s sad, it’s un-American.”
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