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Joe Scarborough, one half of the MS NOW host duo Morning Joe, dropped an F-bomb during a rant about House Speaker Mike Johnson during a live broadcast on Friday.
According to the Daily Beast, Scarborough’s F-bomb was dropped at 6:18 a.m. on Nov. 21 as he called on Johnson and other Republicans to defend President Donald Trump’s recent Truth Social posts. In his post, President Trump called the Democratic Congress “traitors” who shared a video urging the military and intelligence agencies to defy illegal orders from the president and said they should be “bred to justice.”
Scarborough noted that he had to clutch his pearls after airing footage of Johnson defending the president, declaring, “[Johnson]tells a very clean lie. I mean, it’s very easy for him to lie.”
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“You know, it was very disrespectful to the press to just stand around all the time,” Scarborough continued at one point, with a slight accent. “He had a fainting couch. It was beautiful. It was a beautiful pink satin fainting couch with all the frills. He just flipped over, I tell you, he was so shocked and stunned.”
That’s when Scarborough dropped the F-bomb, saying, “These people are lying through their teeth. These people are lying through their teeth.”
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Mika Brzezinski immediately said, “He didn’t say that. It was half.” Scarborough later added, “Mike Johnson knows that this is all what service members have to do to uphold their sacred oath, and that is not to commit illegal acts.”
The video in question, released earlier this week, features Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, as well as Reps. Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander, Chrissy Hoolahan, and Jason Crow, all of whom have served in the military or intelligence agencies.
As seen in a clip from her press conference show on Morning Joe’s segment, White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt told reporters that the video “could cause confusion and incite violence.”
Meanwhile, Johnson was captured by reporters at the Capitol on Thursday and said Trump was only “defining sedition” in his post.
“I’m not. It’s a factual statement, but obviously lawyers have to parse the wording to determine that,” he said in a clip aired during the segment. “What I want to say, and what I will say unequivocally, is that this was a highly inappropriate move by so-called Congressional leaders to encourage young soldiers to disobey orders.”
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“I mean, think about what a threat that is to our national security and what that means for our institutions. We have to raise the bar in Congress,” Johnson continued. “This is out of control and highly inappropriate.”
