By no means waste a possibility to trash Donald Trump by dragging him right into a story, regardless of how tenuously associated. That could possibly be Joe Scarborough’s motto, given his efficiency on Tuesday’s Morning Joe.
Scarborough managed to use the acquittal of Daniel Perry in his New York Metropolis trial to counsel that Trump was pretty convicted by a jury there.
He boasted:
“A jury of his friends discovered him not responsible. Lots of people that had been additionally screaming when a jury of friends discovered Donald Trump responsible, after all. They [the jurors] had been dismissed as hacks. Nicely, in the identical Manhattan jury pool, a jury of Daniel Penny’s friends discovered him not responsible.”
Scarborough suppressed the obtrusive variations between the 2 circumstances. Not like the Penny case, Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg boasted throughout his marketing campaign that he meant to go after Trump, very like New York Legal professional Common Letitia James did.
As for the jury pool, Penny had by no means run for workplace. In distinction, Manhattanites gave Trump solely 12 % of the vote in 2020. So the percentages had been excessive that the jury was stacked with individuals who had been, entering into, against Trump. And if any jurors had been Morning Joe viewers, they might have been immersed in years of Scarborough branding Trump a fascist, and a mortal menace to American democracy.
Even liberals like Jonathan Chait and Ruth Marcus had criticized Bragg’s indictment of Trump.
The Penny and Trump circumstances are apples and oranges. Though, Scarborough’s try to pull Trump into the Penny case was bananas.
The Penny case gave all members of the panel the prospect to explain their experiences on the New York subway. When it was his flip, Eugene Robinson let his elitism present. He stated:
“I am not a New Yorker. I’ve ridden the subway once in a while. I normally get misplaced. I take an specific once I ought to have taken a neighborhood, or vice versa. And I find yourself — [snickers] I’ve seen elements of Queens and the Bronx that I actually by no means meant to see.
As somebody who was born within the Bronx and grew up there and in Queens, I am so sorry, Gene, that your delicate eyes had been subjected to seeing elements of New York of no curiosity to you. Keep on with the tony elements of Manhattan, and go away us Outer Borough varieties alone.
The transcript is under. Click on “develop” to learn:
MSNBC’s Morning Joe
12/10/24
6:11 am EDTMIKA BRZEZINSKI: A verdict has been reached within the case involving Marine veteran Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely, a homeless man, that Penny — who Penny put right into a chokehold on a New York Metropolis subway that resulted in Neely’s loss of life.
Penny has been acquitted of criminally negligent murder after Neely’s remaining moments had been captured on video by a bystander that set off weeks of protests and drew nationwide consideration. The choice got here on the fifth day of deliberations after the jury was deadlocked final week on manslaughter costs, which the choose later dismissed.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: And, and, Tom, a jury of his friends discovered him not responsible. Lots of people that had been additionally screaming when a jury of friends discovered Donald Trump responsible, after all, they had been, they had been dismissed as hacks. Nicely, in the identical Manhattan jury pool, a jury of, of Daniel Penny’s friends discovered him not responsible.
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EUGENE ROBINSON: However the New York subway, you already know I am not a New Yorker. I’ve ridden the subway once in a while. I normally get misplaced. I take an specific once I ought to have taken a neighborhood, or vice versa. And I find yourself —
SCARBOROUGH: That occurs to us all. You wind up in Flushing Meadow whenever you had been making an attempt to get to Macy’s in midtown. It is horrible.
ROBINSON: Precisely. I’ve seen elements of Queens and the Bronx that I actually by no means meant to see.
