During Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe,’ host Joe Scarborough slammed former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and former president Donald Trump over comments they made praising Russian President Vladimir Putin as he moves to invade Ukraine.
The show aired a clip of a smiling and effusive Pompeo praising the Russian strongman, saying he has “enormous respect” for Putin and that he is an “elegantly sophisticated counterpart.”
Scarborough wasted no time expressing his disgust.
“He’s talking about a man now who has threatened nuclear extinction on NATO, on the United States, the world, if he is not allowed to invade yet again for the third time over the past 13, 14 years,” Scarborough said with a grim face. “He says, ‘elegantly sophisticated’ and said there’s not much gain in him assassinating journalists, not much gain in him assassinating political opponents, that it lights up the human rights light and makes it hard for them to work together.”
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The Morning Joe host also blasted conservative media outlets like Fox News for also praising the Russian dictator.
“This is happening all over the place. This is happening on Fox News; you have people on Fox News who are openly running down Ukraine, a country that’s striving to move toward the west and move toward democracy, he said. “You see it happening with the Republicans in the House. You see it happening, of course, with Donald Trump, who just, you know, we had people asking, ‘what would Donald Trump do if we had this crisis? Oh, Donald Trump would never put up with this.'”
“Donald Trump is actually saluting Vladimir Putin for invading a sovereign power, it doesn’t stop,” Scarborough said.
Watch the video below from MSNBC.
