During Thursday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough slammed “phony populist” Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for attacking tech giants over their decision to ban Donald Trump from their platforms.
“It’s been funny to watch these phony populists, these Harvard boys and these Stanford boys and these Yale boys, and you name it, and all these Ivy League schoolboys that are supposed to be so smart talking about Facebook and Twitter like they are state actors,” Scarborough said, “and like they’re violating people’s First Amendment rights.”
Scarborough’s comments came as he addressed Trump’s lawsuit against Facebook, Google and Twitter claiming that tech companies had gathered governmental powers to violate his First Amendment rights to post on their platforms.
The “Morning Joe” host accused Cruz and other Republicans of lying to voters about laws governing social media.
“This argument that they’re state actors and they’re violating people’s First Amendment rights is just asinine,” he said. “No court is going to support that. Again, they’re either playing ping-pong and foosball during law school. If that’s the case, I should have tried harder to get into Ivy League law schools because I had to actually study and read case law when I was in Florida Law School, or they’re lying to their voters. Wonder which one it is? Stay tuned.”
Watch (Scarborough’s remarks begin at the 2:16 mark):
