Scarborough says he's leaving the Republican Party indefinitely after GOP supported Trump
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Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said on Wednesday that he would never be a Republican again after the party supported President Trump.
During an appearance on “The View” with his wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski, the former GOP congressman was asked if the party could recover after supporting the president over the last four years.
Scarborough said the GOP keeps making “fools of themselves” by kowtowing to Trump, and that he didn’t know where to go after the party threw aggressive support behind him.
“I don’t know where I go. I’m not sure where you go,” he said. “I don’t go back to the Republican Party.”
Scarborough also blasted Trump for acting as a “fascist,” saying Trump has called on his supporters to commit violent acts and repeatedly suggested arresting his political opponents. He also pointed out that Trump has asserted that Article II of the Constitution gives him “the right to do whatever I want as president."
“My Republican Party, the Republican Party of my youth, remains silent. I can never go back there,” the former congressman said.
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