Oh, NOW Joe Scarborough Wants the GOP to Dump Trump?

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Oh, Now Joe Scarborough Wants the GOP to Dump Trump?

By Jeremy Stahl

Joe Scarborough’s reversal on Donald Trump is complete.

In an editorial published in the Washington Post on Wednesday, Scarborough called for the Republican Party to drop him as their nominee. This comes after Trump has already been officially nominated and after Scarborough spent months on his “Morning Joe” program and in other formats boosting Trump with softball interviews and glorification of his polling success.

“The Republican Party needs to start examining quickly their options for removing the Republican nominee,” the MSNBC host wrote a bit too late. The final straw? Trump’s comments that have been widely interpreted to “jokingly” advocate for the assassination of Hillary Clinton or her federal judges.

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Prior to May, the former U.S. Congressman was seen to have been one of Trump’s biggest backers in the media. He regularly boasted of his early predictions that Trump would win the nomination and often had Trump on as a guest for sessions that were described by independent media critics as love-fests.

In December, Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple watched the previous "Morning Joe" interview sessions with Trump and reported back that “the central theme is bonhomie.”

Ever since mid-June, “Morning Joe” has had a blast yukking it up with Donald Trump. The laughs, giggles and chuckles come when Trump tells a joke; they come when he makes an outlandish claim; they come when he introduces himself to the program over the phone, “Good morning, darling”; they come when the topic is one of his competitors or when the topic is a man in Trump’s company who is making a valiant attempt to learn English but hasn’t yet reached the level of “Ernest Hemingway” or when the topic is Trump’s “vision.”

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