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It was obviously a tough pill -- or shall we say nut -- for Joe Scarborough to swallow. On Wednesday's Morning Joe, the Trump hater par excellence grudgingly admitted that as president, Donald Trump got it right when he chided Angela Merkel over Germany's dependence on Russian oil. Although Scarborough spoke of "oil," Trump's key concern was Merkel's agreeing to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, bringing Russian gas, not oil. Here's a 2018 Reuters article quoting Trump saying the gas pipeline deal made Germany "a captive to Russia.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday reacted to former President Donald Trump calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “savvy” for waiting until he was out of office to invade Ukraine. Scarborough called House Republicans who supported Trump “a disgrace to America” for “bashing” President Joe Biden for being weak in handling the escalating tension between Russia and Ukraine.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Friday called on Democrats to listen to Hillary Clinton and focus on calling out the “do-nothing Republicans.” Scarborough said highlighting that the House GOP doing “absolutely nothing” “would not be a bad theme for Democrats to pick up” ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for a recent ad targeting National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr. Anthony Fauci. The ad highlights the White House chief medical adviser’s flip-flopping on combatting the coronavirus pandemic.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday criticized President Joe Biden’s first year in office. Scarborough highlighted how Biden ran and won as a moderate but has since “decided” to “govern as a leftist.” He added that “has failed miserably.”

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Monday reacted to an email from former President Donald Trump that was critical of the show and its ratings. The statement from the former president read, “Will Morning Joe be canceled? He and Mika’s ratings are very low—they are having an extremely hard time finding an audience to listen to the Fake News they spurn. Losing them would be very sad—hope it doesn’t happen! On another front, looks like Unjoy Reid, the racist commentator on MSDNC (MSNBC), is toast. Her stupidity is only surpassed by her absolute lack of television persona. She never...

After rolling footage of DeSantis dodging questions from Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, Scarborough deadpanned, “What a dumb world he lives in.” “Is the whole solar system around him dumb?” Scarborough continued. “He’s afraid to say whether he got a booster shot? How can anyone be so weak?” Brzezinski tried to bring Jonathan Lemire in for his take, though Scarborough kept laying into DeSantis by sarcastically asking “you’re afraid to tell people whether you got a shot or not?” This led to Scarborough whooping to himself as he said, “What would it be like a man living in that kind of...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Monday railed against his former party for blocking the vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Scarborough said he was “shocked” the GOP would block the bill but added the effort was “an indictment on the Republican Party.”

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Friday sounded off on the previous day’s efforts to remember the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. According to Scarborough, the remembrance helped “cast a light on just how wretched the House Republicans have become.”

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Friday reacted to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “MasterClass lesson” in which she discusses her life and career. During the class, Clinton got emotional as she read the speech she would have given if she had not lost the 2016 presidential election. Scarborough said the clip of Clinton was “so extraordinarily moving,” and he finds it “hard to believe that anyone could find criticism and cynically attack someone” for exposing their souls the way Clinton did.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Monday slammed his former party during a segment about “the far-right’s finest from this past weekend.” The former GOP congressman hit Republicans for claiming to be the party that values the sanctity of life while also calling for people to be executed, refusing to “give kids health care” and “allowing school shootings to continue.” Scarborough argued the party fighting for freedom from vaccine and mask mandates was proof they were “not dedicated to saving lives.”

On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough cited a report that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had to bring peace between the members of his caucus “who are closely aligned with former President Donald Trump” and more moderate GOP members who joined the Democrats in passing the recent infrastructure spending package. The “extreme” members, to Scarborough’s thinking, are those who opposed Biden’s $1.2 trillion ‘infrastructure’ bill. Scarborough made these comments on his program “Morning Joe.” Scarborough said McCarthy “sacrificed his political soul to be Speaker of the House” which in turn meant losing the respect of former President Donald Trump." The “Morning...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough lavished rare praise on former President Donald Trump Friday for his administration’s help in developing multiple COVID-19 vaccines through Operation Warp Speed, calling it a “bipartisan victory.” Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida and staunch critic of the 45th president, favorably compared the Trump administration’s vaccine rollout effort to that of the European Union, saying the US “bet on the right horses.” The host’s comments came after MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle slammed Trump for not encouraging Americans to get vaccinated sooner and claimed the US would be a “different country today” if he...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday reacted to Republican Glenn Youngkin defeating Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia’s gubernatorial race. Scarborough said what played out in Tuesday’s election was Democrats over-emphasizing “wokeism.” He urged Democrats “to come face to face with this issue of wokeism” if they want future success in elections.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Monday reacted to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) voicing his concern with the January 6 select committee requesting his phone records as part of a bipartisan investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol. After airing the clip of McCarthy’s Fox News Channel interview from over the weekend, Scarborough said it is “a really good thing you can’t get arrested in Washington, D.C. for stupidity” because he and others “would be dragged to the jailhouse.”

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday took issue with Republicans for refusing to vote to raise the debt ceiling. Scarborough accused GOP leadership of being “reckless” in its opposition to Democrats. He questioned if the likes of Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Ben Sasse (R-NE) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) would allow the economy to crash as a result of the debt brought on by the GOP and former President Donald Trump.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Monday called for the people behind former President Donald Trump to be looked into for “fueling” his stolen election “conspiracy” theories. According to Scarborough, “Trumpist” Republican legislators are reinforcing Trump’s lies about “rigged elections” in Arizona, Georgia, and elsewhere by strengthening voting law. He said the people behind him are “the threat to American democracy.”

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Friday sounded off on four aides for former President Donald Trump being subpoenaed by the select committee in charge of investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Trump has said he would invoke executive privilege if he were subpoenaed in the investigation. Scarborough warned Trump that “there is no executive privilege for treason” nor sedition.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday reacted to the criticism of Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly calling his Chinese counterpart General Li Zuocheng multiple times during the Trump presidency and vowing to warn him ahead of any U.S. military action. Scarborough argued that Republicans are critical of Milley and accusing him of treason because he has read up on Critical Race Theory and taking “steps to defend America” by conducting secret operations behind then-President Donald Trump’s back. He called those Republicans “snowflakes.”

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday questioned if the court system would really penalize a 16-year-old rape victim in Texas who chose to get an abortion. Scarborough warned of the “precedent” set by the new Texas abortion law which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. He said it would be “so heinous” if the law were to be enforced on a rape victim.