An excellent tirade

Scarborough Slams Sen. Graham For Urging Trump To 'Illegally Seize Power'

"Can you believe Lindsey Graham, a guy who, along with me, throughout the 1990s championed the power of checks and balances, then of course against Bill Clinton, we always talked about Article One and the Constitution and being Constitutionalists. 

"Well, now that same Lindsey Graham, who actually followed John McCain's lead for so long, is actually the Republican who is using his position as Senate chairman of the Judiciary Committee to encourage Donald Trump to declare a national emergency and illegally seize Article One powers if he doesn't get his way on the border wall.

"It is illegal. It will be overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States and if Lindsey doesn't know that, he shouldn't be in Congress. 

"It's that obvious. The courts will overturn this . . . .

"But Lindsey says it's not going Donald's way, so let's just declare a national emergency. 

"We can rob money from people that are suffering in Puerto Rico, we can rob money from people suffering in California. 

"We can rob money from our military men and women, even though the Armed Services chairman has said that would be deplorable. It is truly deplorable.

"And if that's not bad enough, the Iowa Republican congressman Steve King, a man who has long shared a mutual admiration with Donald Trump, spoke his truth in declaring himself a white supremacist. 

"In days past, he would have immediately been censured and removed from the Republican party. 

"He's just mirroring the president's views after that deadly march, is a member in good standing of the House and the Republican party.

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But I can tell you this today -- Trump is leading this horror show but you know who I hold accountable?

"Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Steve King. and all the Republicans on Capitol Hill that are ducking their heads. They are the co-conspirators, complicit by their action or, more importantly, by their silence. 

"The party of Lincoln and the party of Reagan, they're suffering through a massive moral collapse. It is sad and it is dangerous for this country and I believe it is the beginning of the end."