“Here you have a guy that is from Indiana, from Indiana. I think his family, if I’m not mistaken, had been in the country longer than Trump’s grandmother,” Scarborough said.
Brzezinski then asked guest Rev. Al Sharpton if Trump’s comment represented racism.
“Oh, it’s absolutely, unequivocally racist,” Sharpton said.
.@JeffFlake calls @realDonaldTrump’s attacks on federal judge ‘offensive’ and ‘a whole new level’ https://t.co/dufK7UCki1
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) June 6, 2016
A month earlier, Scarborough got into a feud with Trump over Twitter, when the host defended the way he’s covered the Republican primaries to critics who said he was too soft on Trump, and Trump responding saying that the show’s ratings were failing.
The “Morning Joe” host has been sympathetic to Trump’s strategy of taking over the Republican Party by appealing to white working-class economic and social fears to build a grassroots movement.
