"They somehow think that something that's now been deemed constitutional is as bad as Donald Trump actually being part of a conspiracy to commit sedition against the United States government," Joe Scarborough said.
October 21, 2022

Joe Scarborough talked about the sudden escalation of right-wing rhetoric from people he used to respect.

"Just a couple of days ago, last couple of weeks, I have noticed an uptick in conservative publications that I read from people that I've respected in the past," he said.

"And I respect a lot of the other things they write about, but suddenly talking about impeach Joe Biden, he's a lawless president, look what he did with the student loan program. It's lawless. Our constitution is at risk, and how dare he do this, and how dare people ever say that Donald Trump was a risk to the Constitution. When he's doing this.

"And Amy Coney Barrett goes, 'Well, we're not even going to take this case.' I remember saying at the time to one of them, well, why don't you go through the process and if the Supreme Court rules that it's unconstitutional, you don't have to impeach a president. Just overturn the law! That's really how it works, unless you just want to blow everything up, which is of course what apparently they want to do.

"They want to scream and shout 'impeach' like they're owning the libs because they somehow think that something that's now been deemed constitutional is as bad as Donald Trump actually being part of a conspiracy to commit sedition against the United States government. I'm afraid this may be a preview of what we see in Kevin McCarthy's majority."

"It's going to depend on how big of a majority," Elise Jordan said.

"Democrats have to hope that it's going to be pretty narrow. It just makes my head hurt to think of the idea of impeaching presidents over giving away money to the American public. If that's the new standard, wow. If we give away free money all the time, the nastiness of the fight we're going to see coming up, the retribution against Democrats for impeaching Donald Trump twice no matter what their grounds are, as we all know that what happened was very valid.

"Donald Trump tried to start an insurrection, and he tried to use American foreign policy dollars to benefit his own political fortunes, pretty valid. That's not going to really be that frame of logic isn't going to be what guides the next steps going forward from Kevin McCarthy's majority."

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