‘Morning Joe’ Rips Republicans Who Don’t Like the Theory that ‘Donald Trump Is Beholden to Russia’

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SCARBOROUGH: "Well, it is definitely. We’ve noticed that when the pressure is on him, he gets worse, at times incoherent. That happened during the ramp-up of the Mueller investigation, at critical times in the Mueller investigation we would see this. After the Mueller investigation passed, we noticed a little bit less of that. Whether it’s the economy or something else that’s going on right now, there is no doubt that with pressure on him he does seem to be more incoherent based on people who work around him than he has been in some time. You know, Willie, we talked about this earlier this week. The Republicans don’t — other than Kevin McCarthy, who said that the Russians paid off Donald Trump, the Republicans for the most part don’t like the theory that Donald Trump is beholden to Russia and Trump apologists in the media get very angry whenever somebody suggests that and start pushing back, and it’s the anti-anti-Trumpism that they have hidden behind for years to keep their subscription rates up or to try to just stay afloat. But I do wonder, at the end of this week, what is the Republican explanation for a president who has ceded Syria, ceded the Middle East, who has ceded Afghanistan now and said, 'Go in, take over, we will get out,' against the advice of every single military person, of every single general, of every single admiral, every single foreign policy expert that has helped America become the most powerful country in the history of the world. And the fact that he’s doing nothing to protect American democracy. What is their explanation? If they don’t like that Donald Trump is on the take or he’s being blackmailed by Vladimir Putin, and there has been no evidence of that, what’s their explanation?"