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Joe Scarborough goes on Twitter tirade after downplaying devastation of summer BLM riots
On Tuesday, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough went on a Twitter rant over his earlier remarks that the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was not equitable to businesses getting looted and vandalized during last summer’s Black Lives Matter riots.
Tuesday afternoon, The Daily Caller shared a clip from Scarborough’s MSNBC program “Morning Joe” in which the former Republican congressman said the two weren’t comparable.
“There are idiots on other cable news channels that will say ‘Well, you know, there was this mom-and-pop store was vandalized during the summer riots and that’s just as bad as the United States Capitol being vandalized,'” Scarborough said in the clip. “No, jack—, it’s not. The Capitol of the United States of America is the center of American democracy, and while I am a fierce believer in people’s right to defend their private property, I’m not going to confuse a taco stand with the United States Capitol.”
In the same Twitter thread as that clip, The Daily Caller tweeted, along with a video from the Kenosha, Wisconsin riots and a man standing outside his burnt business: “Was Scott Carpenter’s furniture store which was burned down during the riot in Kenosha just a taco stand @JoeNBC?”
Scarborough responded within minutes of the publication’s tweets.
“Do you think it is the same?” Scarborough fired back on Twitter. “Are you too stupid to understand the destruction of personal property is abhorrent, and at the same time realize that a terrorist attack against the US Capitol is a greater threat to America? Is arson against a warehouse the same as 9/11?”
In response to the video of the furniture store, the MSNBC host wrote: “No jack—. It was a furniture store. And the freaks who burned it down should rot in jail until they pay him back.”
The Daily Caller‘s Chief Video Director Richie McGinniss shot back at Scarborough, saying: “The *federal courthouse in Portland was attacked for over 100 days straight. I was at the Capitol and I was in Portland. Both were abhorrent because they were both examples of POLITICAL violence. For Joe, The Capitol riot was Trump supporters and that’s the *real difference.”
Scarborough replied: “You are being ignorant. I have attacked rioters in Portland since the summer. I have specifically blasted Portland’s mayor and Oregon’s governor repeatedly for letting rioters trash the federal courthouse and destroy the city. Can you do the same to the Trump Terrorists?”
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In a significant development, Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, was indicted on Thursday on federal gun charges as part of Special Counsel David Weiss’ ongoing investigation. The indictment alleges that Hunter Biden made false statements during the purchase of a firearm, among other charges.
The charges against Hunter Biden include:
• Making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm
• Making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federal firearms licensed dealer
•Possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance
According to the indictment, the alleged incident occurred on or about October 12, 2018, in the District of Delaware. Hunter Biden is accused of knowingly making a false and fictitious written statement during the acquisition of a Colt Cobra 38SPL Revolver. According to reports from Fox News, the statement, submitted on Form 4473, falsely certified that he was not an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, or controlled substance.
Furthermore, the indictment further states that between October 12, 2018, and October 23, 2018, in the District of Delaware, Hunter Biden knowingly possessed the same firearm despite being an unlawful user of and addicted to controlled substances. This marks the first set of charges brought by Special Counsel David Weiss against Hunter Biden since being granted special counsel status.
The investigation came to public attention when it was reported by Fox News in 2021 that police had responded to an incident in 2018 involving a gun owned by Hunter Biden.
Reports state that, Hallie Biden, the widow of President Biden’s late son, Beau, who was in a relationship with Hunter at the time, discarded the gun. Hunter’s gun was thrown away in a dumpster near a market, located close to a school. It was subsequently revealed that Hunter Biden had purchased a gun earlier that same month.
Hunter Biden’s legal troubles do not end with the gun charges. Earlier in July, an original plea agreement collapsed, which would have seen him plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax counts for willful failure to pay federal income tax, thus avoiding jail time on a felony gun charge. Instead, he pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and one felony gun charge.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss as special counsel to oversee the Hunter Biden investigation and related matters. The White House has declined to comment on these developments, which continue to draw significant public and media attention.
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