In a Washington Post commentary published in the Times Picayune of 7/18/17 titled, "Trump Is Killing the GOP" Scarborough used several pieces of "Fake News." First of all Trump and the GOP are one and the same as articulated by this writer last year in PolitiDose. The GOP is killing its own self. Trump has been using the GOP tactic of personal attacks and other forms of un-American ideology that started long ago and the GOP is supporting every Trump move and lies.
Scarborough served in the U.S. House as a republican at the same time Newt Gingrich was running the House and in his article gave out the "fake news" that his party was successful balancing the federal budget. The true story has been recorded in history about those years and it was the Clinton administration that balanced the budget and created surpluses. And it was the democratic controlled congress that passed Clinton's economic and deficit reduction plan in their budget and rejected the republican budget the GOP introduced. It was also a time when Gingrich, Scarborough and the republican party shut down the government.
Scarborough, who left congress in 2001 claims that the republican party began its fiscal policy disaster with the George W. Bush administration which doubled the national debt, turned Clinton's balanced budgets and surpluses into deficit spending and promoted a foreign policy so utopian it would make Woodrow Wilson blush. But the truth of the republican fiscal disasters actually started with the Reagan administration who in his 8 fiscal years never balanced one federal budget and the national debt increased 186%. Scarborough was totally silent on the Reagan years.
Morning Joe, Scarborough's morning cable show on MSNBC was one of many cable Hosts who gave Trump much air time during the Presidential campaign of 2016. Joe, like the other Hosts could not get enough of Trump and his corrupt talk and actions. They allowed Trump to drown out the other candidates because he was good copy. They showed no interest in the fact that Trump was not qualified to be President. They helped get Trump elected and now don't know what to do with him or how to handle him.
No, Trump is not killing the GOP because they are willing partners. The killing of the GOP started with the so called Newt Gingrich Revolution that began during the time Scarborough served in the U.S. House. That is when the GOP made its killing turn with its conservative un-American ideology. It has continued until this day and Trump is now its leader who is taking the GOP to new extremes. Scarborough had his chance when he served in the U.S. House to make a difference in his party but failed the test. Sooner or later "fake news" will bury those that subscribe to it.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
