MS NOW host Joe Scarborough was visibly shocked Thursday to report U.Okay. authorities had arrested former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal title final 12 months amid questions on his previous connection to late little one intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“That’s proper,” stated Scarborough. “Prince Andrew has been arrested.”
Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew on his 66th birthday on “suspicion of misconduct in public workplace,” which Scarborough applauded as a seeming instance of justice — earlier than slamming “morally bankrupt” Republican members of Congress for failing to comply with swimsuit.
“All the world over … gravity nonetheless holds in authorities,” he stated. “You realize, JD Vance is all the time wanting down the top of his little nostril at Europe. Effectively, at the least they’ve disgrace in Europe. If someone was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, there are penalties.”
Scarborough continued, “No penalties right here! And once more, I hold saying it, Republicans are too silly to take heed to me as a result of they’ve all the time been too silly to do what’s of their greatest curiosity. That is your individual base you’re screwing. That is your individual base you’re ignoring.”
President Donald Trump has lengthy tried to distance himself from his documented relationship with Epstein, and although he in the end caved final 12 months by signing the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act and forcing the discharge of remaining DOJ paperwork, Scarborough agreed with visitor BBC reporter Katty Kay that the White Home continues to be shielding “folks that they need to shield.”
“They usually’re defending Republicans,” Scarborough stated. “And so once more, if you happen to did one thing horrific or if you happen to had been terribly near Jeffrey Epstein, if you happen to received caught mendacity time and time once more about your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein … you’re off the hook!”
Scarborough famous, “This is identical occasion that talked about attending to the underside of the Epstein information, which we’ve been speaking about on this present since 2015 when only a few folks apart from [Miami Herald reporter] Julie Brown in Miami had been speaking about it.”
The most recent trove of Epstein information appear to recommend Andrew gave Epstein confidential info in 2010 and 2011 because the official U.Okay. commerce envoy, together with a short detailing profitable funding alternatives within the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province.
Andrew was beforehand accused by late Epstein sufferer Virginia Giuffre of sexually assaulting and abusing her when she was a minor in 2001, and agreed to an notorious sit-down interview with the BBC in 2019, which was so catastrophic it was tailored right into a film.
Scarborough on Thursday torched Home Republicans and Home Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who determined to not attend Wednesday’s deposition of retail billionaire Les Wexner — who notably helped Epstein attain his exorbitant wealth.
“Comer and his committee doesn’t even care concerning the man who began this hellscape,” stated Scarborough. “They don’t even present up for his deposition. That tells you the way hypocritical and the way morally bankrupt on this Epstein problem they’re.”
He added, “And all the cash and all of the marketing campaign stops by the president, all of that, that doesn’t assist. That really makes issues worse for you, since you’re masking up for individuals who consorted with Jeffrey Epstein. Good luck with that.”
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