Morning Joe offers profane advice to longtime 'buddy' Mark Meadows

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

"Hey, Mark, I've known you for a long time, buddy, you're in deep sh*t," Scarborough said. "You're in the middle of this conspiracy. You may want to get yourself a really, really good defense attorney. To quote Donald Trump, you may want to get one of those. Oh, wait, here's an idea, Mark. You can do something that you've refused to do for years now. You can show courage and you can tell the truth. Hey, Mark, Donald Trump won't protect you. He will throw you under the bus, he will stab you in the back, he will let you rot in jail. Defend the country or, well, get ready to pay a criminal defense attorney a lot of money."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/morning-joe-offers-profane-advice-to-longtime-buddy-mark-meadows/ar-AAYZOLL

[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[yonder]

2. "...get ready to pay a criminal defense attorney a lot of money."

Perfectly describes our multi-tiered justice system: The more money one has, the more "justice" they can buy.

Here's hoping Meadows bumps into his limit.

[rurallib]

8. wish I could rec a reply

[canuckledragger]

14. To me that was confirmed with that murderer OJ Simpson's 'dream team'

Everything he did pointed to his guilt, but enough money made sure he was declared innocent.

[Skittles]

36. it was proof that money trumps even race

that double-murdering piece of shit walked

[jaxexpat]

24. The most important reveal in Joe's diatribe and he says it as an aside, a jibe at vulnerability.

As if the fact that you're "REALLY GUILTY" is nullified by the disclaimer, "good thing you're REALLY WEALTHY". And if you're "in the club", people will whisper cruelly about your reduced state, now that you're broke. "He was always so cocksure. Now he'll see what it's like." "Yes, he will be remembered, a lesson to us all. Don't be stupid, HaHaHa."

Well, it's a good thing that 90% of the people in this country aren't trial judges or being "broke" would be only the first of some, current and past, Republican's worries.

Oh, Icharus. Arise and tell your tale again for the people have forgotten.

[Srkdqltr]

3. What was profane?

[dchill]

7. Deep doo-doo.

[Nevilledog]

10. Had the same thought....lol

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4. Meadows should've resigned as soon as he got wind of the upcoming...

coup attempt...probably in Nov. or Dec. '20. He didn't, he stayed on and went along with the most incompetent president ever, who came up with the "stop the steal" sham.

Guess the few extra paychecks they got while staying on was worth it, but the coup attempt was never going to work. Even if they had taken over the Capitol and stopped Pence's confirmation of EC votes, that temporary stoppage of the transition would never have held.

There are too many institutional safeguards for such a scheme to work. Come on. Donald effin trump thought that up. Since when did anything he came up with ever succeed?

So dumb.

[MiniMe]

5. I think you mean Nov Dec '20, not '21

[brush]

6. Right. Will edit.

[uponit7771]

35. Which is crazy they planned all this shit in 20, they were NO DOUBT attempting a coup where the

... America's vice president gets murdered if he doesn't do Benedict Donald's bidding

[2naSalit]

19. But months afterward...

He identified himself as a member of the shadow cabinet and has been working with the asshole on his continued assault ever since.

[brush]

22. And that has gotten him in grave need of a great lawyer...

and the payout of fees that goes with that.

[2naSalit]

27. In that case...

A million bucks might serve as a retainer.

[brush]

28. That 1m he got from trump's fake election defense fund is why...

he suddenly stopped cooperating with the J6 committee.

I wouldn't wanna be him as he's gotta cough up that money now to lawyers, and hope he doesn't have to spend too long in prison.

[yardwork]

41. My sense is that Mark Meadows is very dumb.

I don't think he is a bright man. I also think it's very possible that Trump has something over him. The behavior described by his aid sounds like he might have been depressed, he might have felt trapped in the middle of something he couldn't figure out how to get out of.

[Martin Eden]

9. Be Like John Dean

He went to prison for a brief spell after Watergate, then went on to have a pretty good public life.

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Anyone and Everyone

involved in any capacity in this mess, whether found guilty or not, whether pardoned or not,

should be stripped of all their assets except for a few hundred bucks and the clothes on their backs,

and immediately have their U.S. Citizenship and Passport taken away, and deported to Russia.

These MAGATS obviously want a PUTIN style tyranny government, let them have it......

[groundloop]

18. I disagree with the concept of punishing someone not convicted of a crime.

I just really really really want everyone involved in this attempted coup to be tried, convicted, and marched off to prison.

[jaxexpat]

26. That's cool. As Opie so aptly said, "give 'em a fair trial and hang 'em."

[DENVERPOPS]

31. The catch

the catch-22 to what we are facing this time, is that if the jury is tainted by even ONE Trumphumper, they walk...........

While I agree with you in Principle, even people pardoned are still guilty and should be deported without their U.S. Citizenship or passport. Countless others that are shown to be directly involved will get off if it goes to criminal trial.........

Look at the two impeachments and how a biased "jury" freed him.

[plimsoll]

39. That's so true.

I’ve been saying this since Mulhuer. The “conservatives” have broken everything. We my have the institutional trappings, but jurors who decide based on what they think the law should be destroy any possibility of justice. The GOP unleashed their law free society 6 years ago, but the institutionalists (Democrats) keep it going because that is what the founding fathers intended.

[oldsoftie]

25. "whether found guilty or not"? Well, THAT would certainly upend the country.

Sorry but no.

[DENVERPOPS]

32. the catch

the catch-22 to what we are facing this time, is that if the jury is tainted by even ONE Trumphumper, they walk...........

While I agree with you in Principle, even people pardoned are still guilty and should be deported without their U.S. Citizenship or passport. Countless others that are shown to be directly involved will get off if it goes to criminal trial.........

Look at the two impeachments and how a biased "jury" freed him.

[oldsoftie]

37. As mentioned before, look at OJ Simpson. Found not guilty. What do we do?

Yes he was found liable in a civil suit, but he's flaunted that. What would we do to him? Who decides?
If anyone in trumps mob is ever charged wouldnt the trial be in DC? Not a ton of trumpers in that jury pool

[plimsoll]

40. OJ is a really poor example.

The Simpson case is a traditional "Rich People don't live by our laws" situation. The more apt example was the Mulhuer occupation and subsequent trials. The prosecution failed to get convictions despite the defendants bragging about doing what they were charged with on national television.

That was different, that was a law free society. The refusal of a juror to convict because they decided that they don't agree with the law and therefore aren't going to assist in upholding it fundamentally breaks our legal system. We really don't have a means of correcting that, and in fact you could argue that our double jeopardy laws will be invoked to ensconce the rulings of faithless jurors.

Sorry OJ may be offensive, but it's run of the mill "laws are for the poor" offensive.

[Grammy23]

12. Didn't Meadows get a million dollars

from campaign funds? Or something along those lines. Guess we know where he’ll be “investing” that moola. A good lawyer might sign on for that.

Was it worth it, Mark?

[Traildogbob]

20. He got that cash

From the grifting campaign to get the cult to cough up cash for the Stop the Steal defense bucket. $250 million was what had been reported. Now it’s close to $459 million. Now they can pay 450 people to lie and cover up.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Meadows may be talking to the DOJ but I doubt that he cares about J6

There is no way that Meadows is going to talk to the J6 committee given that Meadows is facing some serious criminal charges with the DOJ

[Joinfortmill]

15. Sigh. Holding my tongue.

[Ford_Prefect]

16. Meadows is in so deep he'll never cop a plea or help bust TFG. Mark is the Dark Money front man.

He was deep into the Dark Side in NC and knows all the players in GOP circles. He's not the DC Madam but he's every bit as connected to the folks behind the curtain.

I'm not predicting it but it won't surprise me if he gets disappeared or worse. If the present witnesses have been tangibly and genuinely threatened, and I take it that the threats are real, Mark already knows what could happen to him.

[FakeNoose]

17. That's probably why Chump wanted him for CoS

... Chump needs his fixers to be as dirty and jaded as he is, because those are the only ones he can trust. In other words, Joe Scarborough is wasting his time. Meadows sold his soul a long time ago.

[oldsoftie]

21. Not holding my breath. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

23. "and Donald Trump strutting in like Benito Mussolini declaring himself the next president"

A great way to describe what Trump was dreaming of. This is what he was thinking would happen. His minions would secure the Capital Building, and he'd follow once it was all clear and the police had been taken care of.

And the Swing States with R governors would then declare they were going to replace the electors because of some unseen fraud. And the new ones would simply reverse the EC numbers in his favor. And if it ever got to the SCOTUS, I'm sure he was counting on their loyalty to back him up.

Flynn and his brother and others in the military, many of whom were and are indoctrinated with either Evangelical or Trumpian cult immersion or both, would spring into action to steer them to hold fast, stand down. Until they could "prove" there was massive fraud.

Its scary how close it all was to happening.

[jaxexpat]

30. It's was/is always there. Just around the corner or the end of a blind alley.

It used to be too complex to be a realistic threat but these days anything, no matter how absurd, happens at the speed of light.

[Emile]

29. I caught that live this morning and my mouth dropped.

Hopefully Mark will do the right thing and tell the truth for the good of our democratic republic.

[Boomerproud]

34. How much breath can you hold and for how long.

Mark Meadows has no conscience or principles.

[Lil Liberal Laura]

33. OMG he said "shit"? The whole word? They didn't even bleep it out?

I'd better get to church right now to cleanse the filth from my mind!!!

[Cha]

38. Sounds like Solid Advice..

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