There was a heated confrontation on Twitter between MSNBC host Joe Scarborough and journalist Glenn Greenwald. The reason for this dispute is over the rise of former President Trump in the Republican Party and Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) impending dismissal from her GOP leadership position on Capitol Hill.
Scarborough tweeted a New York Magazine article on Cheney and highlighted a passage from the piece. Greenwald responded to the initial tweet from Scarborough regarding Cheney.
“Anyone who thinks Liz Cheney is motivated by some sort of sacred devotion to the Rule of Law – after everything she’s spent the last two decades supporting – is either extremely ignorant or extremely dishonest. In Scarborough’s case, of course, it’s always a shifting mix of both,” Greenwald wrote.
The MSNBC host would respond to Greenwald’s tweet by referring to him as a Russian agent in a tweet. Greenwald would once again respond to Scarborough. After some more back and forth tweets, Greenwald uploaded a video and stated that no one helped former President Donald Trump reach The White House more than Scarborough.
“Not one person on TV did more than Joe Scarborough to help Donald Trump get to the White House – he slobbered all over him on TV & in person at Mar-a-Lago. Calling everyone a Russian agent won’t erase that fact from the first paragraph of his obituary,” Greenwald wrote.
Scarborough provided one last tweet addressing the matter in his dispute with Greenwald.
“You would have to be a sheltered elitist or a clueless idiot to believe the people who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 watched MSNBC’s morning show for clues on who to vote for. They never did, and anyone who says they did shows just how little they know about American politics,” Scarborough wrote.
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