“This is not about the Mueller report,” Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough said.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough reminded viewers Wednesday morning that President Donald Trump has repeatedly lied about his connections to Russia while also providing political cover for Vladimir Putin.
President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands before attending a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018 YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images “This is just about what we know to be true, and when people are running around on TV saying, he was vindicated, there was nothing there, forget the fact that Donald Trump and everybody around him lied about their support of Russia, their connections with Russia,” he said. “I’m just saying, we’re taking it from the legal now, just straight to the political.”
President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 7, 2017 SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
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