Morning Joe launches furious rant at Wall Street Journal 'sneer' at claims Trump embraces fascism

Morning Joe's Joe Scarborough launched a furious rant Wednesday astatine Republicans and The Wall Street Journal for turning a unsighted oculus to erstwhile President Donald Trump's 'fascist' threats. 

Scarborough, a erstwhile GOP personnel of Congress, pointed to The New York Times' interviews pinch Trump's erstwhile Chief of Staff John Kelly, who said successful a communicative published Tuesday that Trump met nan meaning of a 'fascist,' would govern for illustration a dictator and had nary conception of nan Constitution aliases nan norm of law. 

The MSNBC big was exceptionally dispute toward The Wall Street Journal, whose editorial committee wrote successful an op-ed Sunday that nan American group weren't buying nan alleged 'fascist meme,' which nan Journal said was simply a Democratic attack. 

'Two days aft saying that, a wide who served arsenic Donald Trump's longest-serving main of unit said yes, he's a fascist,' Scarborough pointed out. 'The Wall Street sentiment page mightiness want to revisit this sneer.' 

Scarborough besides complained astir nan 'grotesque fawning and rationalizing for a man who is promising successful his words to beryllium an autocrat.' 

Trump turned heads erstwhile he told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo earlier this period that he would usage nan U.S. subject connected 'the force within.' 

Vice President Kamala Harris and different Democrats interpreted that to mean that Trump would usage subject unit against his governmental enemies. 

Harris even played nan clip at a large-scale rally successful Erie, saying it proved that nan 78-year-old had go moreover much 'unstable and unhinged.' 

Scarborough had a akin interpretation, saying that nan WSJ was 'kowtowing' to Trump contempt him naming salient Democrats including Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, who will very apt beryllium elected to nan U.S. Senate, arsenic those 'enemies.' 

The WSJ justified those comments by publicizing Trump's walk-back, that successful an question and reply pinch nan insubstantial nan Republican nominee 'made clear aft immoderate rambling that he was talking astir destructive riots'  

The Journal besides based on that Trump's 'worst effort astatine stretching executive powerfulness - reallocating subject building monday to build nan separator wall - was mini brew compared pinch Mr. Biden's lawless $400 cardinal student indebtedness forgiveness.' 

Kelly, who has not endorsed Harris, confirmed erstwhile reporting that connected much than 1 juncture Trump said positively of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

'He commented much than erstwhile that, "You know, Hitler did immoderate deity things, too,' nan erstwhile main of unit told nan newspaper.  

Kelly said he pressed nan then-president to person a amended knowing of history - arsenic Hitler's activity of Germany led to nan Holocaust and execution of six cardinal Jews, and betwixt 70 and 85 cardinal connected and disconnected nan battlefield. 

'First of all, you should ne'er opportunity that,' Kelly said he told Trump. 'But if you knew what Hitler was each astir from nan opening to nan end, everything he did was successful support of his racist, fascist life, you know, nan ... philosophy, truthful that thing he did, you could argue, was bully - it was surely not done for nan correct reason.' 

During his rant Wednesday, Scarborough pointed retired that Vanity Fair had antecedently reported that Ivana Trump talked ot her lawyer astir really Trump would support Hitler speeches by his bedside. 

'Again, it conscionable fits a pattern. And you would think, though, that astatine immoderate constituent location would beryllium 1 thing… and Hitler seems would beryllium a beautiful bully statement successful nan soil to tie that Republicans wouldn't reflexively take sides him,' Scarborough said. 

'I'm sorry. It's really conscionable difficult to grasp,' nan erstwhile Republican lawmaker said. 'Promising mundane to apprehension his governmental opponents pinch nan military. Again, it's difficult to grasp and yet Republicans proceed to spell on for nan ride.' 

At nan extremity of nan segment, Scarborough issued a warning. 

'This is much than an predetermination to spot who nan adjacent president is,' nan Morning Joe co-host said. 'This is an predetermination to find nan early destiny of what shape of authorities we person and if Madisonian populist survives.'