Never waste an opportunity to trash Donald Trump by dragging him into a story, no matter how tenuously related. That could be Joe Scarborough’s motto, given his performance on Tuesday’s Morning Joe.
Scarborough managed to exploit the acquittal of Daniel Perry in his New York City trial to suggest that Trump was fairly convicted by a jury there.
He boasted:
“A jury of his peers found him not guilty. A lot of people that were also screaming when a jury of peers found Donald Trump guilty, of course. They [the jurors] were dismissed as hacks. Well, in the same Manhattan jury pool, a jury of Daniel Penny’s peers found him not guilty.”
Scarborough suppressed the glaring differences between the two cases. Unlike the Penny case, Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg boasted during his campaign that he intended to go after Trump, much like New York Attorney General Letitia…
