Morning Joe Slams GOP Congressmen Attacking Mueller’s Team: ‘Show Your Text Messages During Benghazi’

‘How Stupid Do They Think We Are?’

Joe Scarborough is going after House Republicans who are doing their best to try to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team after Jeff Session’s Dept. of Justice has politicized anti-Trump text messages sent by an investigator who has since been removed. 

On Wednesday House Judiciary Committee Republicans grilled Rod Rosenstein, the DOJ’s Deputy Attorney General, trying to force him to hire a special counsel to investigate Mueller and his team. The GOP Congressmen tried to turn personal text messages, which referred to then-candidate Trump as an “idiot,” into proof of bias against the president, and therefore, supposedly, discrediting the entire investigation into the Trump team’s illegal acts, and possible collusion with Russia. 

“I’d love to see these guys’ text messages during their hearings,” the MSNBC co-host of “Morning Joe” said Thursday morning, as Raw Story reports. “You guys want to play that game? Show your text messages during Benghazi, show your texts. Why don’t you reveal your text messages and what you were texting each other while you were conducting an ‘impartial’ investigation of Benghazi for, like, eight years?”

FBI agents are allowed to have personal political beliefs. The agency’s culture and policies exist to ensure candidates who cannot professionally separate their personal beliefs from their jobs don’t become agents. The FBI’s 100 person team under the Inspector General works to ensure no bias affects the agency’s investigations.

Scarborough focused his opprobrium on Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who former House Speaker John Boehner once called a “legislative terrorist.”

After mocking Jordan for disrespecting House dress code rules, Scarborough then mocked him for wanting to disband the Mueller investigation, now that it is getting close to understanding what really happened.

“How stupid do they think we are?” an incredulous Scarborough asked. 

“If you’re trying to disrupt Bob Mueller’s investigation that has already brought down three or four people extraordinarily close to the president of the United States, you’re making a fool of yourself,” Scarborough said. “You’re trying to undermine the rule of law.”

Rosenstein on Wednesday made clear Mueller is doing his job appropriately, adding, “I believe he was an ideal choice for this task.”

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