{"id":1029541,"date":"2024-02-09T19:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T19:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1029541"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:56:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:56:43","slug":"scarborough-this-guy-is-a-trumper-who-knew-trump-would-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/scarborough-this-guy-is-a-trumper-who-knew-trump-would-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough: This Guy is a Trumper Who Knew Trump Would Love It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The special counsel\u2019s \u201cextremely gratuitous, unnecessary \u2026 political pot-shot\u201d against the president is being widely condemned. MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough and Congressman Dan Goldman blasted the \u201cbad faith\u201d political cheap shots in the special counsel\u2019s report that concluded that President Biden and his team did the right thing \u2013 something that can\u2019t be said about Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Joe Scarborough on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-us.googleusercontent.com\/561BUTJtHzrFkzWE4s_Nrrsg3KVomzhn3aAH7E8G0_E4p-VLNdcvFAMGw_JT7iTXdrDuPPdYigSTE0TBHYTNVnth7ItZBdro3WE15arSz-Kr0GmQ-ZFvt7iS2tvIzyDFjBEMR7ddhcTTCGXKXhR-fA\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=cb1a717c-40ef-440b-941d-8c41eb113d4d\">Scarborough<\/a>: \u201cIt certainly seemed like a politically charged document. \u2026 He didn\u2019t have any evidence. \u2026 The one thing that he did right, he talked about the distinctions between Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=46085c6e-bc15-41ce-90ac-a109fdfdadfb\">Scarborough<\/a>: \u201cDo you think&nbsp; \u2026 [the special counsel] didn\u2019t know, by putting words in, that Donald Trump would love for him to put in there? \u2026 He\u2019s a Trumper who knew.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=10e74919-6e95-4be2-94bd-4b5c31244319\">Scarborough<\/a>: \u201cA neurologist from Trump university \u2026 so bizarre. \u2026 People immediately heard these random conclusions, irrelevant conclusions, politically charged, Trump-like ramblings. [They wondered] why in the world would he put that in the report?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/morning-joe-crew-livid-with-garbage-special-counsel-report-from-trumper-robert-hur-bad-faith-for-garland-to-release-it\/\">Mediaite<\/a>: \u201cMorning Joe Crew LIVID With \u2018Garbage\u2019 Special Counsel Report from \u2018Trumper\u2019 Robert Hur\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Representative Dan Goldman on CNN\u2019s \u201cCNN This Morning\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-us.googleusercontent.com\/zBkhC92nAbYPKGVYjsPRVST_qfUilZXVZzqs3Fc1Lb1mI0-oe0yS3PwKJX1EEEYsZi7NsHK3bQCr-GL-cJ8fFwm6rYMRmCHg1kDFEibXfQDxG0qbaALVKVM03U9Po6mhHNMSbKzhkU0QqSiClb56Wg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=02597b65-9880-4aa2-9e92-34c3d2b656d2\">Rep. Goldman<\/a>: \u201cThis was extremely gratuitous, unnecessary, and it was just a political pot-shot in the middle of an election year. \u2026 This [Special Counsel] who was appointed by Donald Trump wanted to make sure that he got his licks in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=e12e4cc3-49c3-47f8-9e7f-35c30c0e852f\">Rep. Goldman<\/a>: \u201c[Hur] wanted to deflect from his ultimate decision and I think that&#8217;s why this report is misguided both in its conclusion and its excessive editorializing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=d2c1299e-a9e4-4a78-b468-494c731b6e0e\">Rep. Goldman<\/a>: \u201cI spoke to him on October 7 when I was in Israel a couple hours after the Hamas attack and that was the day before this interview began and he demonstrated an unbelievable mastery of this entire region. He had already reached out to a number of different leaders. He understood all of the vortexes and all of the issues and tension points. This is someone whose age has a tremendous benefit and his experience and his understanding and his knowledge of foreign policy going back many many years and that has been to our benefit in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The special counsel\u2019s \u201cextremely gratuitous, unnecessary \u2026 political pot-shot\u201d against the president is being widely condemned. 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