Inside Donald Trump's long-standing feud with Morning Joe

Cable news web MSNBC’s prima greeting big is taking partisanship to a caller level successful nan 2024 statesmanlike run rhythm arsenic he progressively ‘freaks out’ astatine nan imaginable of Donald Trump returning to nan White House, media critics charge.

Joe Scarborough, big of nan left-wing channel's Morning Joe, has agelong railed against Donald Trump arsenic a threat to populist successful a bitter individual feud making love backmost astir a decade.

But seasoned media watchers person been near stunned by his caller attacks connected different news outlets, left- and right-leaning alike, daring to tally pieces captious of Kamala Harris as nan polls inclination successful Donald Trump's direction.

‘They sound hopeless because they are desperate, because they cognize that Donald Trump is winning correct now,' Fox News contributor Joe Concha told DailyMail.com.

The four-hour greeting show has go a bastion of nan Democratic constitution pinch President Joe Biden routinely tuning successful while doing his greeting exercises to spot his acolytes beforehand nan party's talking points.

Just this past week, Scarborough tore into colleagues successful nan wide media aft immoderate were unconvinced by claims that Trump fit nan meaning of a 'fascist'.

Kamala Harris seized connected remarks by Trump's erstwhile main of unit John Kelly suggesting that his one-time leader would 'govern for illustration a dictator'.

'This is much than an predetermination to spot who nan adjacent president is,' Scarborough dramatically informed his viewers.

'This is an predetermination to find if Madisonian populist survives.'

But nan over-the-top rhetoric, ramped up arsenic it mightiness person been, was hardly thing new.

The show quickly rallied down Harris’ candidacy aft she usurped Biden arsenic nan Democratic Party's nominee, but showed early signs of nervousness arsenic nan move grounded to nutrient a important canvass lead.

It was much than a period earlier Harris agreed to a sit-down question and reply pinch anyone arsenic she tried to surf nan activity of enthusiasm, and moreover wide outlets grew disappointment pinch her 'word salad' remarks and reluctance to explicate her policies.

Scarborough denounced nan complaints arsenic 'a lie, an absolute lie,' arsenic he tore into Bret Stephens of nan New York Times and Daniel Henninger of nan Wall Street Journal past month.

'Do you really person nary shame?' he demanded.

'They're desperately trying to create nan support building truthful they tin ballot for a man who said he was going to terminate nan Constitution,' Scarborough said, referencing Trump.

‘Scarborough’s cognition is to harshly knock immoderate media outlet that dares to inquire Harris immoderate applicable questions regarding her candidacy,’ Concha said.

‘He will onslaught anyone who dares to situation her, which is overseas considering that Scarborough really considers himself to beryllium a journalist. He’s not. He’s a Democratic activist, plain and simple.’

Scarborough besides commiserated pinch Harris' hubby Doug Emhoff aft nan Daily Mail exclusively reported that he cheated connected his first woman pinch their nanny and sewage her pregnant and besides that he slapped a girlfriend.

Rather than property nan 2nd man connected nan stunning reports, which hit astatine awesome planks of his wife's campaign, he posed nan questions arsenic if Emhoff were nan victim.

'I'm conscionable curious,' Scarborough asked his guest.

'I'm conscionable wondering, really do you each enactment centered, really do you enactment disciplined and not really spell disconnected and not really push backmost difficult astatine these things?'

'It's each a distraction,' Emhoff easy answered. 'It's designed to get america disconnected our game.'

Tim Graham, of NewsBusters.org, said nan speech allowed Harris' hubby to disregard nan reporting without denying them.

'Doug Emhoff didn't contradict it, but Scarborough was implying it was made up,' Graham told DailyMail.com this week.

'He was like, 'How do you woody pinch these people? It's excessively much!

'They [Democrats] are each very disappointment that nan predetermination is efficaciously tied. They are like, "Why aren't we 12 points ahead?"'

The question and reply capped what has been a singular turnaround for Scarborough, a erstwhile GOP congressman from Florida, who swept into agency connected nan backmost of Newt Gingrich's 'Republican Revolution' successful 1994.

Trump was a regular contributor to Morning Joe, and Scarborough was an early cheerleader for nan billionaire's maverick bid for nan GOP information successful 2016.

‘Throughout astir of nan 2016 campaign, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Had embraced Trump to nan constituent they interviewed him 41 times, pinch a coagulated mostly of those interviews done by phone,’ Concha recalled.

‘And they were perfectly fawning complete his candidacy.

‘But erstwhile viewers turned connected them, they magically changed into nan astir anti-Trump programme connected U.S. television.’

Relations soured arsenic Trump pulled disconnected a astonishment triumph successful nan Republican primaries and began to look for illustration a superior challenger to nan Democrats' Hillary Clinton.

'A bloody statement has been crossed that cannot beryllium ignored,' Scarborough wrote successful nan Washington Post arsenic Trump's free speaking proved worryingly popular.

'Donald Trump has near nan Republican Party fewer options but to enactment decisively and get this governmental train wreck disconnected nan tracks earlier thing unspeakable happens.'

With Trump successful nan White House and Scarborough engaged to co-host Mika Brzezinski he began cementing his show's personality arsenic an outpost of guidance to nan caller administration.

The mates moreover recorded a Christmas medium called 'A Very Drumpf Christmas' pinch children's songs portraying nan president arsenic Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

It yet attracted nan attraction of nan president himself, who delivered a bid of withering put-downs, labeling Scarborough 'Psycho Joe' and his fiancee arsenic 'low IQ Crazy Mika', while mischievously claiming she had been 'bleeding severely from a face-lift' during a sojourn to his Mar-a-Lago estate.

And nan feud deepened erstwhile nan president revived long-debunked claims that Scarborough had been progressive successful nan decease of his erstwhile legislature staffer who was recovered dormant connected his agency level successful 2001.

An autopsy recovered that Lori Bolterstein Klausutis, 28, had deed her caput connected a table aft collapsing from an undiagnosed heart-valve irregularity but Trump called for a caller investigation into nan case.

The allegations earned Trump his first rebuke from Twitter, which would yet footwear him disconnected nan level altogether successful January 2021.

'It's singular that we person a president who is trying to person personification prosecute nan personification he considers to beryllium his main professional successful nan media,' Scarborough wrote.

'That's what Putin does. That's what Orban does. That's what autocrats person been doing for centuries.' 

Trump appeared a spent unit aft his 2020 predetermination defeat, facing aggregate ineligible investigations and nan emergence of young challengers pledging to put nan play of his presidency successful nan past.

Morning Joe, meanwhile, became nan forum for DC's caller Democrat constitution and nan most-watched greeting cablegram news programme by 2023, boosted successful portion by its extended sum of Donald Trump's ineligible battles.

But by 2023, Trump erstwhile again mystified his critics by turning nan prosecutions to his advantage, gobbling up his GOP rivals successful nan primaries without moreover debating them.

With nan segment group for a rematch of nan 2020 predetermination betwixt Biden and Trump, Scarborough took up arms arsenic nan erstwhile president began sparkling nan spotlight connected his 81-year-old rival's declining abilities.

'I'm astir to show you nan truth,’ nan big told viewers. 'And f*** you, if you can't grip nan truth.

'This type of Biden intellectually, analytically, is nan champion Biden ever. Not a adjacent second. And I person known him for years,' he went on, seemingly beyond logic ignoring nan diminution that by past had go evident to astir of nan world.

'The defining infinitesimal of this run was Joe Scarborough trying to shame group for questioning Joe Biden because 'he's nan champion he's ever been',' Graham told Dailymail.com.

'They support nan guidelines riled up. They are morale officers - 'Don't interest your beautiful head, everything is going to beryllium fine'.

Viewers, however, seemed unconvinced, and concerns were thing but allayed aft Biden's disastrous statement pinch Trump threw nan Democrats into turmoil connected nan evening of June 27.

For 2 months, nan show became nan crucible successful which nan early of nan statement was thrashed retired and connected which Biden made his hopeless past stand.

The time aft nan statement Scarborough described Biden arsenic a 'man I love', and nan president phoned successful connected July 8 to reassure him that 'I'm not going anywhere'.

'I'm not letting up, Joe. I'm not letting up moreover a small bit,' Biden told nan host.

Scarborough began rallying his supporters, moreover echoing Donald Trump successful accusing Democrats of fomenting a coup.

'Democrats, you believe, whitethorn now beryllium doing nan aforesaid point that Donald Trump tried to do successful 2020, and that is overthrow nan celebrated will of Democratic voters,' he asked 1 guest.

'You know, I haven't heard moreover President Biden spell that far,' noted NPR media analogous David Folkenflik.

'It whitethorn beryllium he was trying to transmission Biden aliases counsel him a small spot astir immoderate of nan rhetoric there.'

'The domiciled they've played is conscionable doing nan bidding of nan Biden White House and nan Biden campaign,' 1 Democratic advisor told nan Washington Post astatine nan time.

Scarborough continued to take sides nan president moreover aft nan unit for his removal became irresistible, and erstwhile speaker Nancy Pelosi chose nan programme to present her lethal request that Biden 'make that decision'.

The president bowed to nan inevitable and Scarborough, without missing a beat, hitched his wagon to Kamala Harris arsenic nan VP climbed unopposed to nan apical of nan Democratic ticket.

'Being against Donald Trump is their breadstuff and butter,' said Graham.

‘I deliberation they are sincere successful reasoning that Donald Trump is simply a threat to democracy, but (Scarborough) started retired arsenic a Republican congressman and for 10 years made a large show of being nan only Republican successful nan room.

'And now he is nan past of nan red-hot Democrats.'

Harris, indeed, has signaled her gratitude for Scarborough's unbending support, telling Howard Stern 'I emotion that guy' successful an question and reply connected October 10.

'I don't work together pinch him connected each issue, but we work together connected nan astir important astatine this moment, for sure,' she added.

And nan statement seems to person deepened arsenic nan run reaches its last important days pinch Trump's supporters seemingly impervious to appeals connected argumentation aliases personality.

Biden made Trump's expected threat to populist a centerpiece of his aborted campaign, but Harris preferred to represent her force arsenic a fig of ridicule.

Now nan rumor is beforehand and halfway of Democrat messaging, pinch Scarborough moving successful step.

‘In caller weeks, they’ve only turned up nan reckless rhetoric while wholly ignoring nan truth that location were assassination attempts connected Trump’s life complete nan summer,’ said Concha.

Trump deed backmost astatine Scarborough this week for accusing nan erstwhile president of threatening to apprehension his show's producers.

'Nobody said that,' Trump told Fox News, earlier hinting astatine nan reasons for 1 of nan astir toxic relationships successful politics.

'Look, Joe's a sick puppy. I cognize him well,' he explained.

'I was friends pinch him and pinch Mika.

'But astatine a definite constituent — and it doesn't matter why — but I didn't want to do it anymore pinch them. And they're not excessively happy astir it.

'He says a batch of things for illustration that. I deliberation they're unethical, but who knows?'

Graham said Scarborough and nan programme he leads are now simply struggling pinch blowback from nan hyperbolic connection they helped pioneer.

'We're each amazed by them freaking retired complete Donald Trump talking astir "the force within,"' he said. 'They person been calling him nan force wrong since nan infinitesimal he was elected.

'It goes backmost aways, because they were rather supportive successful 2015. This is nan point that they do. They opportunity they want Donald Trump to beryllium nan campaigner because he's easy to beat, and past erstwhile he is elected they telephone him Adolf Hitler.

'Well if he's Adolf Hitler why did you support him arsenic a candidate?

'The worst point astir this is that he's really been president for 4 years and we didn't person an American Reich. There's an full governmental constitution to restrain him.'

And Scarborough looks group to stay astatine nan bosom of that constitution moreover if his nemesis triumphs.

‘When you person a occupation successful cablegram news and you’re making millions of dollars it’s not really going to impact you,' said Graham.

‘You only really get upset if personification sends forbidden migrants to your Nantucket market.’

But what will viewers spot if their big is thwarted successful his determination to support Trump retired of nan White House?

'More freak outs,' said Graham.