During Thursday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, host Joe Scarborough slammed former Attorney General William Barr for his contradictory stance on supporting Donald Trump despite acknowledging the chaos and horror a second term could bring. Barr, who previously warned of a potential nightmare under Trump’s continued leadership, paradoxically stated he would still back him in the upcoming election, prompting Scarborough to question the sincerity of his allegiance.
Expressing disdain for Barr’s apparent deception, Scarborough highlighted the stark contrast between Barr’s dire warnings about Trump’s presidency and his willingness to endorse him for another term.
“Yeah, so I’m sure he’s going to be campaigning for president [Joe] Biden to try to stop this madness,” Scarborough began. “Who wants chaos and a horror show in the White House?
Despite Barr’s assertion that a second Biden presidency would be akin to “national suicide,” Scarborough contested the validity of such claims, asserting that the real threat lies in Trump’s potential disregard for democratic norms and liberties.
“That’s such a lie, and he knows it’s a lie,” Scarborough said. “We’re going to play some clips in a second, but I have to stop, we’ve got to stop and call out the lies when these people know they’re lying. Barr is playing for, I guess, a Fox News audience because he wants to keep giving speeches – I don’t know why he’s doing it. He doesn’t believe a word he just said there, because he knows how chaotic Donald Trump is. He knows, as he said, that him being in the White House again would be a horror show. He also knows – you and I, we all agree on the progressive agenda, we’re not supporters of it. We also know that Joe Biden has spent his presidency, like, feeling pressure from progressives because they say he’s too moderate. This guy from Delaware who, again, is not some left-wing wacko, and Bill Barr knows that. He’d rather have chaos and a horror show, he says.”
Furthermore, Scarborough cast doubt on Barr’s professed loyalty to Trump, suggesting that behind closed doors, he may align more with the alternative. Drawing from past experiences, Scarborough speculated that despite public declarations of support for Trump, Barr might ultimately cast his vote for Joe Biden, recognizing the peril of allowing Trump to continue his authoritarian tendencies unchecked.
“That guy is going to vote — listen, I’ve been through this before with people,” Scarborough said. “They talk that way on TV, and afterwards I ask who they vote for, and they go, ‘Oh, I voted for’ — right? He is going to vote for Joe Biden. He knows national suicide doesn’t come from Joe Biden. He may not like his policies, but it comes because Donald Trump has said, you know, he’s going to terminate the Constitution, he’ll be a dictator from Day One. He is going to use SEAL Team Six to execute his political opponents and nobody can do anything about it. I can go down the line – Barr knows, this guy can’t be president again.”
Watch the segment below from MSNBC:
