The Wall Street Journal scolded President Trump in a Wednesday editorial for tweets promoting a conspiracy theory surrounding a woman who died while working at MSNBC host Joe Scarborough’s former congressional office in Florida, calling the president’s allegations “trash” and “ugly even for him.”
“Donald Trump sometimes traffics in conspiracy theories — recall his innuendo in 2016 about Ted Cruz’s father and the JFK assassination — but his latest accusation against MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is ugly even for him,” the board wrote.
“Mr. Trump always hits back at critics, and Mr. Scarborough has called the President mentally ill, among other things. But suggesting that the talk-show host is implicated in the woman’s death isn’t political hardball. It’s a smear,” it continued. Mr. Trump rightly denounces the lies spread about him in the Steele dossier, yet here he is trafficking in the same sort of trash.”
“We don’t write this with any expectation that Mr. Trump will stop. Perhaps he even thinks this helps him politically, though we can’t imagine how. But Mr. Trump is debasing his office, and he’s hurting the country in doing so,” the board concludes.
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WSJ editorial board condemns Trump for "trash" Scarborough tweets: "Ugly even for him" https://t.co/b8oU973Khm pic.twitter.com/jVYLej0jwf
— The Hill (@thehill) May 27, 2020
President Trump's crazed Twitter rant on Joe Scarborough was vile and unworthy of his office. Some will undoubtedly shrug it off as Trump being Trump, but one could hardly be blamed for reading it and doubting his fitness to lead.
//Our editorial >> https://t.co/GaV5FHVEzL— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) May 27, 2020
Lots of sudden concern at the @WSJ and the @washexaminer as if some line was crossed and no one could have seen it coming. https://t.co/WHOVbweXVh
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 27, 2020
I want one of these toothless editorials from "respectable" conservative outlets to say "Republicans should have primaried Trump when they had the chance." Just one.
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) May 27, 2020
This has been the strategy all along for the Trump-compliant outlets. "We're populists, just like you! And we defended him when he was right! But now that everything is in flames, we were never *really* taken in by all this and we're very, very concerned." https://t.co/JnXD9vwQlW
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 27, 2020
Everyone was in the resistance after June 1944 https://t.co/rtuCr1NGI8
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 27, 2020
"Like the French Resistance in World War II, I predict, the 'Never Trump' movement will have a whole lot more members after the war than it ever did during it." — me, in print, July 23, 2016.
— Doug Thompson (@NWADoug) May 27, 2020
LBJ knew he’d lost Vietnam when he lost Walter Cronkite. @realDonaldTrump just lost the Washington Examiner… https://t.co/WP6laYUgA7
— The Real Reed Galvin (@reedgalen) May 27, 2020
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