“Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s ongoing bitter feud with Donald Trump has certainly cost them some fans on the right, but it’s also earned the couple some additional fans on the left they would never have had before their romance with Trump went south. On Thursday, Scarborough appears to have driven a wedge between himself and some of those liberal followers with his response to the explosive report by the Justice Department inspector general.
In a tweet Thursday, Scarborough announced that IG Michael Horowitz’ report made it official: Vladimir Putin didn’t take down Hillary Clinton, one-time liberal darling James Comey did.
“Vladimir Putin did nothing to elect Donald Trump. James Comey did,” he wrote. “Today’s IG Report proves Comey’s team sat on the Weiner letter until such time it caused maximum damage. No one did more to destroy Hillary Clinton’s campaign than James Comey.”
Many of Morning Joe’s fans among the #Resistance were not happy at all about his summary of the IG’s findings. A few examples of the rather harsh blowback:
Yeesh, that escalated quickly.
As for the IG’s conclusions about the actions of the fired FBI director, they were likewise pretty harsh. While IG Michael Horowitz said he didn’t find conclusive evidence that political bias influenced Comey’s actions, the former FBI director did major damage to the good name of the FBI:
While we did not find that these decisions were the result of political bias on Comey’s part, we nevertheless concluded that by departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice.