Joe Scarborough reacted on Thursday to the arrest of a US Coast Guard lieutenant, accused of planning a mass terrorist attack on the country, accusing President Donald Trump and his manly rhetoric.
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host – himself on a list of Democratic lawmakers and media personalities studied by white supremacist Christopher Paul Hasson – reprimanded Trump for using "Stalinist phrases as" enemies of the people " that only tyrants have used the past. "
He was referring to Trump calling the New York Times a "real enemy of the people" on Twitter on Wednesday morning, following his report detailing his so-called "two-year war on surrounding investigations".
"He writes that in the morning and afternoon we have this plot to kill Democratic lawmakers who oppose Donald Trump and the journalists who dare to reveal the truth about Donald Trump," Scarborough said. .
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WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 25: (GD) George Stephanopoulos, Alexandra Wentworth, Joe Scarborough, and Mika Brzezinski attend the Yahoo News / ABC News White House Corresponders dinner at Washington Hilton on Saturday, April 25, 2015 in Washington. , DC. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker / Getty Images for Yahoo)
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United States – August 29: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of Morning Joe, hang out on the floor of the Republican National Convention in the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Rep. Day. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., Vice Republican presidential candidate, will address the crowd. (Photo by Tom Williams / Roll call)
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"It's pretty simple. Everything rests on the shoulders of the president. It's the fault of the president, "he added. "And he remains seated with his mouth closed, for once in his life, said nothing, tweeted nothing, which, of course, makes it even harder."
Also on the show, Scarborough said he believed Trump knew "what actions his words will lead and what they will encourage".
"There were times when you talked to him and he seemed strangely delighted that his supporters were beating other people in the audience," he said. "He never said it, but he reacted in a deeply troubling way, and we saw it."
"In the end, only tyrants use terms like" enemies of the people ", and Donald Trump has proven, as I say from the beginning, that he is an autocrat in formation," added Scarborough. "The only thing that has retained it is the Constitution of the United States."
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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