MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough was the latest in a list of dishonorable media figures to tie President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s budget-cutting efforts to the idea of additional plane crashes. Unlike other analyses, Scarborough’s ramblings come from someone who likes to style himself as one of the few remaining principled conservatives.
Addressing Axios’s Mike Allen, Scarborough falsely declared, “Mike, you and I have been in Washington long enough to know this. It’s one thing to go against Donald Trump’s tax cuts for the rich in 2017, as Democrats call them, and by the way, in so doing, they won the House and the Senate in 2018, made big gains in 2018.”
Fact-check: Republicans increased their Senate majority in 2018.
Nevertheless, Scarborough rolled on, “It’s one thing if you do that and say they’re going to cut this,…
