Scarborough Jokes About Manafort Being Locked Up in Rikers Island Hellhole

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

The liberal media feigns horror over "lock her up" refrains. But when it comes to a Trump associate actually being locked up in a notoriously awful jail, well, that's a cause for mirth and hilarity.

And thus it was that on today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough joked about Paul Manfort being confined at Rikers Island, which has been described as a "hellhole," as here, here, and "the most notorious jail in America."

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[Phillyred]

Does the man have eyes? Seriously!

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t like what Manafort did, but it was a white collar crime. Many white collar criminals get placed in minimum security facilities. They aren’t violent offenders and so don’t present a physical threat.

Placing Manafort at Rikers seems like over the top punishment. They’ve tried to break this guy any way they could, assuming he had the goods on Trump.

These news commentators should be calling the question of just punishment here. Instead they laugh and whoop it up as if treating a prisoner this way is somehow funny.

This is an evil tactic used by governments we’ve trashed our whole adult lives. Funny?

Further, if this guy was Black they’d be singing a much different tune. Since it’s a white male, they deem it as just. Even more racism from the Left.

Of course the fact he spent months working with the Trump Campaign, is the real crime here. As I understand it, they weren’t going to prosecute him until Mueller took over the Collusion charade.

[apocalypto]

I was once asked, "Is insanity contagious?" And I said, "No." I'm having second thoughts after watching briefly Mikka and Joe Scarborough (and a few others on MSNBC and CNN, all of them in lockstep with a twisted reality and lies).

Their hate and statements aren't those of normal people. Are Mikka and Joe really this delusional? Or are they putting on an act to get their ratings up by catering to crazies? Or do they take orders from some outside source?

[bassmaner]

Trump needs to do 2 things re Manafort:

1. Blanket pardon for all federal criminal convictions

2. Direct the US Solicitor General to file a suit against the State of New York on Manafort's behalf alleging a violation of the 8th Amendment

[longfellow]

Is mika still alive?

[stinkerpot65]

Democrats are evil scum

[CincyRichieRich]

That is where Joe, mr faux manly should be...for murder or at least 1st degree manslaughter.

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[shanover]

Give the banjo player a break,Joe is inbred.

[DoughtyOne]

A violation of his human rights should be sufficient to warrant that. There was no cause for him to spend all that time in isolation. There’s no just cause for him to be sent to Riker’s island.

This is over the top hardball tactics, directed once again at completing the coup against Trump.

I do believe there are grounds to prosecute people who are foisting this punishment off on him.

I agree with your take on it.

At the very least, he should be moved back to a minimum security facility at once. (not sure if he was in one prior to this, but the premise stands)

[GOPJ]

The bimbos and pretentious men of MSNBC would rather have Manafort put in a piranha filled tank - seems our ‘elites’ are white trash thugs.

[FlipWilson]

There are just some people that you can look at and tell. I mean, you can just look at them and tell that there is something wrong with them. You look at Scarborough and you can tell instantly that he has no moral compass. You can look at him and tell, something is no right there.

Don Imus would referent to this guy as “banjo boy.” While accurate, it is an insult to the banjo.

[TakebackGOP]

Joe Scarborough in 1995 goes over welfare’s negative effects on American cities and says they were turned into war zones worse off than third world countries.

https://youtu.be/blT6HJfTWAY