Joe Scarborough Blasts Arizona Prosecutors Taking FOUR YEARS to Bring Charges for Alternate Electors
News broke on Wednesday that top aides to former President Donald Trump, as well as 11 “alternate electors,” were indicted in Arizona on felony charges related to their efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election in favor of Trump. On Thursday, a frustrated Joe Scarborough wanted to know what took them so long.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Scarborough’s annoyance was palpable as he laid out why the timing of the indictments was so “stupid” after co-host Willie Geist reported on the story:
You know, I’m not a prosecutor. We have plenty of former prosecutors on. And we’re going to bring them on in a minute. But Willie, it’s like, thank you so much for waiting until the day before the election. You know, all of these cases that were brought in 2020, late 2023, 2024, you know, look at the date there, December 14th, 2020. I really am, and I’m certainly not just pointing out this attorney general in Arizona. I could I could bring it of all of them, of the Justice Department. Why did they take so long? Georgia! We kept asking why Georgia was taking so long. [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg said, “No, I don’t want to bring that case,” and then brings a similar case like a year later, it goes on and on.
But again, the timing, first of all, it frustrates people who don’t like Donald Trump because he’s not… If there were laws broken, it’s not going to get resolved before the election. And for people who support Donald Trump, they’re like, “Look, they’re all doing this in an election year!” So again, I just again, I know it takes a long time now, but when you look at what happened on January the 6th, it’s kind of like, I don’t… I just, I don’t understand a four-year delay or a three-and-a-half year delay on all of these cases. It’s stupid. And I will say there were people, there were progressives, warning about this, legal people warning about this for the past couple of years. And and here we are.
Watch the video above via MSNBC.
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