Scarborough: Playing Politics After Vegas Shooting Was Denounced, But Trump Got Right To It...

[DonViejo]

Scarborough: Playing Politics After Vegas Shooting Was Denounced, But Trump Got Right To It After NYC Attack

by Ken Meyer | 8:16 am, November 1st, 2017

Joe Scarborough found it interesting that President Trump was quicker at prescribing policy solutions after last night’s terror attack than he was in the aftermath of last month’s massacre in Las Vegas.

Shortly after a truck driver killed 8 people last night in New York City, the president got on Twitter to renew his call for “extreme vetting.” The president has since used the attack in order to attack his political enemies for their sponsorship of the Diversity Visa Program, which allowed the perpetrator to reside in America for years.

As Scarborough reacted to Trump’s first set of tweets earlier this morning, he remembered how a gun debate seemed inevitable after the mass casualty event in Nevada weeks ago, but there was so much push back at the time from those who said that the tragedy was still too raw to be politicized.

“After a man shot hundreds of people in Las Vegas, we heard for weeks because this was going to be seen as a gun debate, that it was too soon to start talking about policy. Now is not the day to talk about policy. Now is not the week to talk about policy. Now is not the month to talk about policy. Once again, within minutes of an attack, anywhere on the globe, Donald Trump immediately starts talking policy, and he starts talking about his answers through policy, the sort of things that they tell us we can never talk about after hundreds and hundreds of people are shot in Las Vegas.”

Scarborough recalled how there was a lot of talk about a federal ban on bump stocks and similar gun modifiers, but now it seems “the cowards in congress” are no longer interested in that debate, and Trump is tweeting away without waiting for the facts to be established.

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[elias7]

1. Now that Joe is an I, he's objectively seeing the flagrant hypocrisy of the R party for what it is

[Ukapau]

3. Laughable though are his words in an MSNBC ad that he puts

"country ahead of party." He has been a strong party back until just recently. I'd like to see him apologize for that.

[Roy Rolling]

9. Apologize

People should not be required to apologize for being a victim of propaganda. As tempting and satisfying as it is to see longtime Republicans eat crow, it is more important for them to defect and challenge the remaining faithful. I don't have to reward Scarborough for being a right-wing tool, I just have to use him when appropriate to support his new-found government policy methods.

Perhaps he has smartly recognized the handwriting on the wall, his former political party is incompetent. They even have to cheat to win the presidency.

[Ukapau]

11. But Joe is no naive viewer -- he was in the belly of the Republican beast and helped create Trump.

He was a very conservative congressman, has been a very right-wing voice in the Republican party, is a global warming denier, etc.

He remains a believer in small government, in cutting taxes, etc.

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[The Wizard]

4. Trump and facts are like oil and water

They don't mix.

[Le Gaucher]

5. Oil and water mix in the presence of a detergent

Detergent molecules are attracted to both water and fatty molecules.

So only way Trump's words mix with facts are if you clean them with lots of detergent.

[tavernier]

8. Degrease him.

Brilliant!

[dalton99a]

6. Of course.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. NYC attack happened on Trump's Watch

Trump's had 9 months to tighten rental vehicle regulations or vet those currently residing in the US.

There's so much NYPD security at Trump Tower there's not much excess for the rest of the city

[MGKrebs]

10. Well hopefully a few more people will recognize Trump for the racist fascist that he is.