Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough accused MAGA supporters of “deliberately choosing lies” when buying into former President Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
In response the MSNBC host opened Monday’s show with a defense of the 2020 election result:
You know, Donald Trump’s own staff members watched in 2020, and do you know what they said? The persons who are in charge of actually watching the election, that Donald Trump put in charge, [former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director] Chris Krebs said it was the cleanest, fairest election on record.
Scarborough then mocked Trump supporters for listening to the reporting of an unnamed “cable news channel” on “the right,” which he said was “lying for 24 hours a day.”
See, and this is the thing. People go: ‘Oh, I don’t know what to believe because Donald Trump says this, but then I turn on this cable news channel that’s lying for 24 hours a day on the right, and they tell me that what he is saying is the truth.’”
Rounding on MAGA, the host continued:
You know what the truth is, and you deliberately choose lies. You know where the light is, and you deliberately choose the darkness. You do it deliberately because you know and I know, 63 federal judges said there was no evidence of any fraudulent behavior, any widespread voter fraud in 2020… The United States Supreme Court, time and again, refused to listen to these because there was nothing there.
The one time they did in a Pennsylvania case, the most conservative justices said: ‘You know what? Even if we responded to this case, it wouldn’t change the outcome of the election.’ You had Republican officials in Michigan, Republican officials in Pennsylvania, Republican officials in Georgia, Republican officials in Arizona repeatedly say that their elections were fair, and yet the lies tonight.
Now, am I saying this because I think Donald Trump’s ever going to change his tactics? No, he knows he’s lying. He admitted last week he was lying. He said he lost by a smidge, whatever he said. No, I’m saying this for the people that actually continue to spread his lies and know differently.
In closing, Scarborough asserted that the reason Trump is raising questions about the 2020 election again, amid claims Democrats are going to “steal” the 2024 election, is because he “doesn’t have a whole lot of confidence that he’s actually going to win.”
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