One day after a report from the State Department’s inspector general found “no evidence” that Hillary Clinton asked permission to use a private email server, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Thursday slammed the Democratic presidential frontrunner for “lying” about the findings.
The “Morning Joe” host sharply criticized a statement from the Clinton campaign after the report was released, which said the report found “just how consistent her email practices were” with other secretaries of state and high-ranking State officials.
“I don’t understand why you put out a statement like that,” Scarborough began. “Stop digging! Stop digging. I screwed up. I’m terribly sorry. I hope the American people will forgive me and I hope they will let us move onto the issues that matter. Stop lying. Stop digging.”
At a Wednesday campaign event in California, Republican Donald Trump said the report was “not good” for Clinton and wise-cracked about “Crazy Bernie” Sanders, saying, “He’s a crazy man, but that’s OK, we like crazy people.”
Scarborough said it’s time for someone to sit Trump down to tell him that because of Clinton’s issues, he could be the next President and it’s time to “stop winging it.”
“Do you think now it’s time…that you stop playing this like you’re in a wrestling match in like a ditch on the side of one of your golf courses?” he said. “How much longer is this going to go on before somebody over there gets serious about the fact that this man is running for President of the United States and not the next CEO of WWE?”
Watch the exchange, captured by TPM:
