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Lock’Em Up: MSNBC Host Scarborough Demands The Arrest Of Trump, Giuliani, and Trump Jr. For Insurrection

In a profanity laced diatribe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough demanded the arrest of President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump Jr. for insurrection.  Scarborough declared “If Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump are not arrested today for insurrection and taken to jail and booked . . . then we are no longer a nation of laws and we only tell people they can do this again.” What he is suggesting would be the very antithesis for the rule of law.

Scarborough also struck out at the police as racist for not shooting the protesters:

“If these insurrectionists were black, they would have been shot in the face. And my god, if these insurrectionists were Muslim they would have been sniped from the top of buildings. So I want to know from the Capitol Hill police — what, is it just white people? Or is it Donald Trump supporters? Why do you scream at people for walking across the street three blocks away from the Capitol? Why are you known as these badasses around the Capitol? But then Trump supporters come in and you open the f—— doors for them. You open the doors for them and let them breach the people’s house. What is wrong with you? Are we a nation of laws? Are we a nation of one man?”

CNN’s Jake Tapper also argued that this was racial double standard and that, if the protesters were black, they would have been crushed by police.

Trying to politicize this tragedy is fundamentally wrong. Scarborough ignores that police in various cities have been criticized in past violent protests by groups like Black Lives Matter for standing back and not intervening.  Prosecutors were criticized for dropping charges against many protesters.   Protesters engaged in days of violence and arson outside of the White House before former Attorney General Bill Barr ordered the Lafayette Park area cleared. He was criticized for both the order to clear the area and (more legitimately) the degree of force used. Scarborough was one of those who denounced the use of force, which was justified after officials feared the breaching of the White House complex security.

I certainly agree that the Capitol appeared utterly unprepared for this protest. That will be the subject of investigation. However, the breach of the Capitol happened quickly after a protest that was peaceful for hours on the mall.

The call for the arrests however are beyond the pale.  Many of us of criticized Trump’s speech as he was giving it.  Many of us opposed the challenge made to the electoral votes.  That however is not the crime of insurrection to call for a protest march on Congress.  We have seen violent protests on the left and the right being led by instigators from groups like Antifa and Proud Boys.

I previously wrote in opposition of declaring Antifa a terrorist organization or labeling left-wing protesters “seditious.” Such efforts would gut protections of free speech under the First Amendment. The same is true with Scarborough’s Siren’s call. If we start charging people for insurrection for reckless political speeches, we will truly “no longer [be] a nation of laws.”

254 thoughts on “Lock’Em Up: MSNBC Host Scarborough Demands The Arrest Of Trump, Giuliani, and Trump Jr. For Insurrection”

  1. Republican Gov. Hogan of MD calling for Trump to resign and saying that it took the DoD an hour and a half to give him approval to send the MD National Guard to DC to help yesterday. Shame on the DoD. Congress should pass a law to give DC control over its own National Guard.

  2. Important to realize: had it not been for Trump, Hillary would have been your president from 2016-2024.

    For this alone, we shall be ever grateful to President Trump.

    1. I’d rather that she have been President than Trump. Nothing would have prevented a Republican from beating her in 2020, except a bad candidate.

    1. It is a well known fact that President Donald Shitforbrains is a draft dodging coward and an all around POS .

  4. Shock, shock I tell ya that Turley would again protect his backside in enabling and given deceptive impression that all is well. Turley has acted as a apologist and deceptive political operative for Trump enough to be proven to be a another brick in the wall against fact and truth driven politics. Turley’s cherry-picking has been the problem along, and should be held accountable to his readers who has not been told the truth and he has enabled the very twisting of fact and has written to the alternative reality crowd that would not believe facts when smacked right in the face.

      1. The nation and the rule of law is the one who lost, and you are the loser that made it happen.

        2. Keep reading all the propaganda organs you call NEWS. You loser. Just go away.

        3. As for ‘rule of law’ you idiot. Laws are for the little people….and the political enemies of DEMOCRATS in power (see Obama admin for many many examples of this, along with the Deep State…)

          1. Haha. He said “deep state.” Tell us more about the horrors of fluoridation, Democratic Party pedos, who was really on the grassy knoll, or how hard it is to find tinfoil for hats. Thanks for reinforcing the truism of what a bunch of dumasses (sic) support the day glo bozo.

            This is to Anon who didn’t even get off his couch on Wednesday

        4. Fishdiks ; the Nation and RULE OF LAW is forever damaged SOLELY due to the fraudulent election(s) and the deep state closing ranks on not fixing the steal they are exposed engineering . The deep state leftists have sold us out to the Chinese – their masters. Filthy lucre and power is all the left cares for. For a year the violence perpetrated by antifags and leftist hacks , we have watched. The media and the left endorsed this , facilitated it. People died , many businesses burned, lives destroyed. And yet idiots like you spout vomit like you do…hypocrisy at it’s zenith.

    1. Thank you for that video, there were 1 Million people there only to support the President. All who hear the President’s speech thought it was uplifting, there was prayer, people sang “God Bless America” over 1 Million coming to who weren’t even aware that Antifa was storming the Capitol building until they got home. Following yesterday’s false flag “storming” of the Capitol Building — staged by left-wing Antifa / BLM instigators who dressed up as MAGA supporters. There is video of the State Troopers escorting Antifa Busses to the Rally. It was well planned and definitely was an inside job as one young man stated whose Father was Homeland Security. There was no way anyone got that far without it being an inside job. One video showed a Policeman leading the people up the stairs right onto the House floor. It was very obvious that this was totally orchestrated on the inside. One picture shows the Police opening the barriers for the group so they could go through. It was so sad that a 14 Year Veteran Loyal supporter of President Trump, was shot entering building! I might add not one Antifa or BLM person was shot ever in all the Church burning, looting, brick throwing, Frozen Ice Bottles they threw at the police or the time the folks left the White House after the President’s speech, all allowed to attack. All the destruction of Hard working American businesses in Washington, no one was ever shot. In fact the Mayor welcomed them with open arms, she and the media said these were “Peaceful Protests”. The Democrats planned this to make sure that President Trump looked like the evil one because he and Millions of American’s wanted an Election that was not corrupt!! They are the ones’ who pay Antifa along with George Soros, Hillary Clinton, which is why you’ll never hear any Democrat criticize Antifa. They want the “Brownshirts” to destroy America. Many who were at other Rallies said this felt different because of Antifa walking around in their tactical gear. No it’s always a two tied justice system in our country which is why 1 Million people came to support President Trump. American’s finally thought their voices were being heard, we were no longer living in a Welfare state, unemployment was low, people were working, manufacturing was coming back to America. We had the best economy in the world!! We actually were moving ahead before Covid-19 meant to destroy the world’s economies!! The frightening thing is that now the Chinese Communist Party will be running the puppet show.

      2. No official count and don’t expect one. According to a reporter that was at the Hong Kong protest of 800 thousand the group was about the same size.

        Sometimes a step backwards motivates a step forward.

  6. “The call for the arrests however are beyond the pale.”

    Are you out of your mind? trump said WE will go to the capitol, he said he would be there with them. Why? to sing songs? play patty cake on the steps of the capitol?

    Professor, you have lost all credibility. This was a clown show failed coup attempt.

    1. It was not a coup. The ‘coup’ was from inside the government. What happened yesterday was IN REACTION TO the coup. Don’t let the Fake News Media lie to you another day.

    2. Trump was going to walk with them but realized at the last minute that he needed to make a quick trip to Walmart to buy the rope. So he told them to go on without him and he’d meet them in Nancy’s office. Really. I heard it directly from Matt Gaetz.

  7. Keep in mind that had Congress been certifying Trump’s win yesterday there would have been “protestors” at the Capitol who would have done far worse than what the same group did yesterday posing as Trump supporters.

    And the same people screaming about yesterday, would be making excuses and trying to justify the violence. Just as they have done for the past year for repeated acts that made anything that happened yesterday look tame.

    That is the worst form of venal cowardice. It’s despicable.

  8. The entire Trump regime should be arrested and hung from the highest tree on Capitol Hill.

  9. Trumpster rioters attack the capital and Turley writes another ankle biting column about MSNBC – typically irrelevant and careful to avoid offending Fox. Too late on that however, as except for dead-enders like Hannity, even they have moved on on Trump. Turley better keep up, though he still has most of the posters here who are also dead-enders to drag along.

    The GOP has moved on from the Mango Mussolini finally, including the establishment politicians and suburban and Chamber voters. With his perpetual minority support, it’s not like he has voters to spare. Buh-bye

        1. That’s pretty much the divisive message full of flatout falsehoods that both Joe and Kamala delivered to the country today. Neither of them are capable of “unifying” nor “healing” anything, let alone the divided country.

          And since we have a fake news lying media, nothing will be corrected, fact checked, or corrected.

          Joey’s message was DIVISIVE. And false.

          The rage from the right is boiing over at this point.

          2. And then to fan the flames, Michelle Obama chimed in with her divisive message full of falsehoods about the Antifa/BLM anarchic mayhem and destructive rioting last summer.

            All of these politcal leaders are LYING and further inflaming and dividing and angering the country.

            But the FAKE LYING NEWS MEDIA believes the same bullsh*t so NONE of them are FACT checked as FALSE.

            THIS IS a big piece of THE PROBLEM!

            1. As Glenn Greenwald put it:

              ‘A handful of Silicon Valley oligarchs decide who can and cannot be heard, including the President of the United States. They exert this power unilaterally, with no standards, accountability or appeal.

              Politics now is begging them to silence adversaries or permit allies to speak:’

              —->insert Michelle Obama’s whitewashed false divisive inflammatory statement….that NO ONE in the media will condemn, criticize or touch with a ten foot pole other than to shamelessly praise and a$$ kiss as they have always done….it is sickening…..

              1. Silicon valley should hang. I don’t blame the Democrats for taking their paychecks from them, as we can see all politicians are essentially liars and fakes, but maybe if the Democrats can grow a pair, they will lock them up or at least squeeze them to help relieve the national debt. I sure won’t be crying for Silicon valley when they slap them with a digital tax and you know that’s coming. Have at it, Democrats!

                1. All the Dems, esp Kamala and Joey B, along with Nancy P, Chucky, and all the rest of the power-grabbing complete freaks in the Democrat Congress, can go FFFFFF themselves. NO ONE in this country gives a SH***T about what ANY of them have to say. But make no mistake, we are coming after ALL of you in 2022.

                3. Biden pulled off the heist …. with the aid and abetting of the big tech and big media…..

                  We will never accept you as a legit administration. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever. You will fail Joey B. Cheater never prosper.

                  1. Haha. Do something b I tch. You’re nothing but another keyboard warrior, safe in your manifest ignorance, racism, and dumassery behind your computer. You and your kind make me puke. Go get your shinebox, dumass (sic). If you don’t like it, I suggest contributing to a grifter like the day glo bozo, but wait until New York convicts him and put it in his commissary account. Loser. And you’re right, smart people really do think you and yours are irredeemable dumasses (sic).

  10. The violence was wrong and self defeating. It was never going to accomplish anything. All it did was besmirch a legitimate movement of concern about election integrity. (Remember when that was a cause celebre from 2016 onward?)

    It is also quite clear that the media and politicians have an appalling double standard towards the behavior of insurrectionists, looters, and rioters among BLM, Antifa, and anarchists of the Left. As long as you burn a police precinct, you’re a folk hero, and “riots are the language of the unheard.”

    Obviously, different standards apply depending on politics. That’s unfortunate.

    1. Karen, just like some on the extreme right are trying to justify yesterday’s abomination, some on the extreme left said “riots are the language of the unheard.” about the Floyd protests and riots (there were both). The “media” has reported both, but having it occur in the Capital is obviously more upsetting to most. Mainstream politicians of both parties correctly attacked and criticized this behavior, whether in Minneapolis or Washington DC. Only one type was stirred up by the President.

      2. If you want to split hairs, it happened once with Trump. Your VP-Elect was cheerleading it all summer.

        1. we know how this works. Democrats favor violence if they think it will advance their aims. They want the fans to jump out of the stands and get into the fight.

          Republicans chicken out when the fans get to excited, and run away

          This tells you two things. First, the Democrats are the party of savage and ruthless power for it’s own sake.

          Secondly, the Republicans are the party of grifters and fakes, who always take a dive when the time is right. Trump seemed like maybe he was the real deal but he was incompetent and has ADHD or something wrong with that guy. What was his plan? He had no plan. He just runs off at the mouth and flies by the seat of his pants. Ok, Trump is now cancelled.

          Between these two awful political parties, the people remain divided and exploited by the oligarchs

          Maybe one day, the “fans” will unite, and storm the court and slay both the fake players, their bogus coaches, and the umpires too

          Then start over and give it another try. America is no Camelot, just another government in history. they come and go, rise and fall.

  11. Trump: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and Jonathan Turley would exonerate me,”

    1. It pays to be ANTIFA. Yawn

      Antifa try to break into Portland courthouse, move to streets and smash up businesses when that fails

      Jon DoughertyStaff Writer

      @bizpacreview.com

      While hundreds who attended a rally in Washington, D.C., Wednesday in support of President Donald Trump breached the U.S. Capitol Building, violence and unrest continued on the opposite coast in Portland.

      “Overnight on 6 Jan., #antifa rioted again in Portland,” journalist Andy Ngo, who is based in the city, wrote on Twitter.

  12. ATLANTA, GA—CNN’s Jake Tapper gravely reported on the “first violent protest in recent memory” yesterday.

    “We’ve never in the history of America seen anything like it!” he cried. “Someone actually shoved a barricade!” he shouted, “and people pushed past security and went somewhere they were not supposed to go!”

    Tapper dissolved into tears trying to wrap his mind around such utter, never-before-seen depravity in the history of this great nation. “I’ve never seen such wanton chanting and pushing before, and I hope to never see it again,” he cried.

    “At least no one lit anything on fire — that’s a bridge our nation still hasn’t crossed,” Tapper said to reassure his viewer that all was not lost.

    “Republicans must never be allowed to gather like this again. What this country needs is Joe Biden to restore order with an iron fist like the blessed Xi,” Tapper said in closing. “He knows how to keep the peace.”

    Babylon Bee

  13. I agree with Turley that Trump’s speech (as I understand it) did not amount to a violation of free speech. My understanding is that he said something akin to let’s cheer on the politicians challenging the electoral vote. Not violent rhetoric and clearly political speech. However, a President must be more responsible and understand the dangers that his or his lieutenants words may have on the public. Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is reported as calling for “…trial by combat…”. I would suggest that such speech may incite violence when spoken to a crowd rallying outside the Capitol building. Was such speech a violation of law? In general we should support speech, even speech we strongly disagree with. That is an idea worthy of protection as it allows ideas to be heard and debated and thus democracy is strengthened not harmed by speech. My question here is, Did Giuliani’s words cross the line and in essence was he shouting fire in a crowded theatre? I would like to know what Attorney Turley and others think? -Eric Brittain, ESQ.,

  14. What Joe and Kamala are saying today in their press conference is flatout wrong. They are both INFLAMING tensions by spreading a false narrative.

    ‘KamalaHarris: “We witnessed two systems of justice when we saw one that let extremists storm the United States Capitol, and another that released tear gas on peaceful protesters last summer…We know this is unacceptable. We know we should be better than this.”

    This is false.

    Tear gas, pepper balls, pepper spray, and flashbangs were all used yesterday, just as they were used on rioters in 2020.

    STOP Lying to the people Joe and Kamala, along with all of your media propagandists.

    1. She’s talking about the spectacle in Lafayette Park–where peaceful protesters were tear gassed to make way for a photo op for the fat one, and she’s damn right.

    2. The complete amnesia on the part of Biden and Harris as well as the left-biased medai is INFURIATING. They had better wake up and start telling the DAMN truth for once.

      1. they wont because LIES are part of currency of the realm of politicians as well as corporations and universities and pretty much every authority we’ve had in America the past 50 years or so prolly all along who knows

    3. Here is what Joe Biden tweeted out today:

      ‘No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protestors yesterday that they wouldn’t have been treated very differently than the mob that stormed the Capitol.

      We all know that’s true — and it’s unacceptable.’

      —————–

      hey Joe, what you just said is not only false, but it is divisive and inflammatory. Keep up the “healing and unifying.”

      Will the media criticize or correct Joe or Kamala’s false narratives they are pushing out today? Of course not! They are ALL pushing out the SAME false narrative.

      What a sad joke this all is watching a senile old man fumble his way into the White House alongside his unelectable and unlikeable VP who will both be propped up and protected by the Fake News Media.

      1. Really can’t blame Joe. Although patently false, it is a cogent thought using more than one sentence. He clearly did not write it and was using his best friend, the teleprompter, when he said it. I was just astonished that the puppet master, his wife, was not at his side when he said it. Must have just got the Adderall shot!

    4. “STOP Lying to the people Joe and Kamala . . .”

      Good luck with that. They’re both pathologically dishonest. And by constantly playing the race card, they’re both racists. The only difference is that she’s serious about her racism. He’s just reading a script. Between the two, she’s more destructive.

  15. My thought is that if you didn’t condemn the antifa/BLM burning, looting, murder and violence this summer as passionately as the so-called “storming of the Capitol” violence, then you get to wear that hypocrisy badge for all time. Oh, and weren’t the DC protesters “mostly peaceful”? The MSM want to know.

    1. Half of them are too clueless to attempt to reconcile the various guises and poses they’ve adopted this year. The others are just malevolent.

      Like the man said, behind every double standard is an unconfessed single standard.

    2. They really think none of us could see BLM protesters riot, loot, burn and destroy federal property for weeks on end with NO consequences last summer.

      Some of us saw it in our own backyards. We watched as law enforcement did nothing. NOTHING.

      Keep up the ‘unifying and healing’ rhetoric, Joe Biden and your giggling, pantsuit-wearing, race-baiting VP.

      1. “. . . burn and destroy federal property for weeks on end with NO consequences last summer.”

        It is far worse than “NO consequences.” Those barbarians were *rewarded* for their rioting — with fawning speeches, public monuments, and millions in corporate and private donations.

        For decades, our culture’s leaders have been spitting in America’s face. This, though, is a new level of depravity.

  16. Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn! Next stop is Vietnam!
    Cause it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
    Ain’t no time to wonder why…
    Whoopee we’re all gonna die!

  17. Turley is comically unaware that we have been a nation without laws for quite a long time.

    The right has been comically late in coming to terms with the nature of their enemy. Those days are over.

  18. Can someone refresh my memory? Did Joe Scarborough call to have other protesters (rioters) to be shot in the face? Did Joe Scarborough call to have the protesters (rioters) shot in the face when they were running loose in D..C pulling down federal statues? Did Joe Scarborough call to have protesters of ANTIFA and BLM shot in the face while they burned and looted this past summer. For all of that, did Joe Scarborough call for Proud Boys to be shot in the face for their antics and they are white? If the D..C., Federal or any police would have shot any of these groups in the face, would he cheer for that?

    I get he is upset, but use some common sense.

    1. Have a look at Scarborough’s biography and consider this possibility: he’s been employed various places over 30-odd years, held various titles, but he’s had only one career: man on the make.

  19. Pigs in a blanket. The cops could have barred the doors and held up pistols and kept them out. The windows are easier to defend. The pigs let em in! On purpose. Not much more needs to be said.

  20. HOMETOWN PAPER RIPS JUNIOR SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY

    I couldn’t access The Kansas City Star due to their paywall. But here The Hill describes the editorial said paper published saying the Missouri Senator has “blood on his hands” for irresponsibly fueling the riots on Capitol Hill. This editorial has been widely cited today among mainstream sources.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/news/533071-hawley-hometown-paper-says-he-has-blood-on-his-hands

    1. Peter, editorialists at the Kansas City paper (or what’s left of it) make clowns of themselves. You’re not helping their reputation by propagating it.

    2. While we’re at it, why is it of interest that a paper who endorsed his last opponent has it in for him? The Republican pols around Kansas City cannot be bothered with the Star and the paper kvetched that five Republican candidates running for marquee offices blew off any interview with their editorial board.

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