MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has revealed “disturbing” conversation he had this week with conservatives willing to destroy the constitutional republic in order to shield Donald Trump from any accountability for his crimes.
The former president is getting increasingly nervous over the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago and his angry supporters are threatening violence against law enforcement officers as the Justice Department moves closer to an indictment.
But the threats are not only coming from people on the fringe of the Republican party, Scarborough said during the Wednesday edition of “Morning Joe.”
“If people want to understand the depths to which this anti-American sentiment is running in the Republican Party, I had two conversations yesterday,” Scarborough said. “One with a family member and one with a Washington fixture, since the days of Ronald Reagan. Both were talking about how the FBI was the gestapo and they needed to be stamped out, spoke of revolution, and the Washington fixture, a guy who I always considered to be a mainstream conservative, a guy who, in the past at least, expressed concerns about some of Donald Trump’s extremities, said to me, ‘Joe, we can replace the U.S. government.”
“It’s not about the government, it’s about an individual,” he added. “Here’s a guy that said we can throw away Madisonian democracy, we can throw away the Bill of Rights, we can throw away the Constitution. We can just get rid of a government that has fed and feeds more people, that’s liberated more people throughout history, that’s keeping the flames of freedom alive right now in Ukraine and in Central Europe, than any other country on the planet, and we can replace the U.S. government,” he said.
“That is the depths to which this cancer has spread among mainstream Republicans, and Liz Cheney is right. These people are angry, and they want to destroy our country — the country where we have democratic elections and the winners who get the most votes are recognized as the winners, and the losers concede to those winners, and Donald Trump has changed all of that now.”
The “Morning Joe” also condemed the insane animosity towards President Joe Biden from conservatives.
“Well, the hatred and the animosity spewed towards Joe Biden from these people I spoke to yesterday, said — they said, he’s a moderate — like boring guy from Delaware… like, he used do do this to Ocasio-Cortez, you used to do this to Bernie Sanders and used to do this to Nancy Pelosi, and now Joe Biden is the radical who is destroying them?”
“It’s just, it’s nonsense,” an exasperated Scarborough added. “The problem is, it’s dangerous nonsense when they start talking about the FBI being the gestapo and how the FBI needed to be defunded and how the FBI needs to be wiped out, and how we can replace the U.S. government. That’s treasonous talk. Five years ago, that would be considered treasonous talk.”
Watch the segment below:
