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highplainsdem

(48,976 posts)
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 12:28 AM Jul 2018

Joe Scarborough in Scathing Op-Ed: The GOP Trump Leads 'No Longer Deserves to Survive'

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/joe-scarborough-in-scathing-op-ed-the-gop-trump-leads-no-longer-deserves-to-survive/


MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough issued a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump and the Republican party in a Washington Post op-ed published on Thursday.

Calling to task the members of GOP, he wrote this:

Are today’s Republicans now so tribal as to blindly endorse a foreign policy warped by President Trump’s obvious allegiance to a former KGB chief who controls Russia through repression, bribery and political assassination and who has called the collapse of that evil empire the “greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century”? Exactly who are these people, and what have they done with my party? And how could any American support Trump’s tragically weak performance at Helsinki?


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“It strains credulity to believe that any Republican would be so foolish as to defend the diplomatic debacle that led one European newspaper to call the U.S. president ‘Putin’s Poodle.'” Scarborough continued on. “Even at home, Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post blasted Trump’s ‘see-no-evil’ approach, and the Wall Street Journal editorialized that Congress needed to develop a containment strategy for both Vladimir Putin and Trump.”

The MSNBC host then concluded by declaring in wake of Helsinki, one thing has become clear: The GOP Trump leads “no longer deserves to survive.”

“But regardless of the verdicts ultimately handed down by historians and the special counsel’s office, the Helsinki summit brought two distressing realities into even sharper focus,” he wrote. “The president of the United States is under the thumb of Putin. And the Republican Party he leads no longer deserves to survive.”

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Full op-ed here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-are-you-and-what-have-you-done-with-my-party/2018/07/19/4827d7a8-8b7c-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html
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kentuck

(111,094 posts)
1. If the Trump Party is the "Party of Putin"....
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 12:32 AM
Jul 2018

Then Putin and Trump presently have control of our government. The "Party of Putin" is the Party of America at this time.

If we do not get out and vote this November, we will get the "government" we deserve.

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
2. The GOP only survives because of racism. Take that away and it's not a viable national party.
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 12:35 AM
Jul 2018

There wouldn't be enough support for right wing economic policy, right wing environmental policy, right wing health care policy, and so on. Not without racism (including xenophobia). I don't think sexism, as rampant as it is, could sustain that party.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
3. I remember Joe and Mica having trump call in every
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 01:03 AM
Jul 2018

morning and going to FL to meet with him.

Rings hollow to me to read this

sandensea

(21,635 posts)
4. And all the (many) put-downs of Obama, Hillary, and other Democrats.
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 01:52 AM
Jul 2018

The worst (to me) was his constant "this is Obama's economy" - in 2009.

 

mr_liberal

(1,017 posts)
7. EVERYBODY thought Trump would lose. Promoting him seemed like a way to make sure Hillary had
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 02:59 AM
Jul 2018

a Republican opponent she could beat.

erlewyne

(1,115 posts)
9. This is a great thread wasupaloopa!
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 03:36 AM
Jul 2018

I quit watching moaning joe years ago because he was so two-faced
and always came back in support of the GOP ... he would knock
the G.O.P. and then come back in the end and applaud them!

Joe knows and Rachel implies ... spurs is a spy!

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
11. dear joe, its way too late and you are responsible for this mess just like the rest of the media who
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 07:23 AM
Jul 2018

capitalized on the trump run. it was so cute at the time...and now you have what we have because of people like YOU

lindysalsagal

(20,684 posts)
12. The irony: carface loves the daughter of an ex-russia expert
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 07:25 AM
Jul 2018

So an ex-gop congressman can't ignore or excuse frump's russian money laundering. If this ever gets exposed, maybe it will be by scarface who finally admits to taking filthy russian money.

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