'Are You Listening, Mikey?': Joe Scarborough Drops The Hammer On Speaker Johnson

MSNBC s Joe Scarborough on Tuesday tore into House Speaker Mike Johnsons (R-La.) outright dismissal of the bipartisan border bill as dead on arrival.

Scarborough repeated accusations that Johnson is doing the bidding of Donald Trump with his condemnation of the proposed Senate package, with Trump fearing a boost in President Joe Biden s polling on immigration if it passes.

God, Ive heard about the Jefferson Bible, but the Johnson Bible? asked Scarborough, in reference to Johnsons past remarks about how he is guided by the Bible. Holy schnikeys, that must be some Bible that tells you to lie, tells you to lie about elections, tells you to lie to get into power, tells you to lie and you admit that youre a liar to get into power, to get close to Donald Trump. And now youre lying about a bill you havent even read.

Scarborough referenced a new opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal in which its conservative editorial board hailed the bill as by any honest reckoning the most restrictive migrant legislation in decades which includes longtime GOP priorities that the partys restrictionists could never have passed only a few months ago.

Are you listening, Mikey? Scarborough mocked Johnson. Just because Donald tells you to jump doesnt mean that you have to put Americas security at risk.

If Republicans reject this bill, the Wall Street Journal editorial page goes on to say, they will hand Democrats an argument that the GOP wants border chaos that they can exploit as a campaign issue, Scarborough added.

Scarborough then reworked The New York Daily News famous 1975 headline Ford to City: Drop Dead over then-President Gerald Fords planned veto of New York City being financially bailed out.

Mike Johnson to America: Go to hell! Scarborough said, adding, Mike Johnson to America: Drop dead!

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