Scarborough: House conservative thinks Americans ‘stupid enough’ to believe Mueller team is anti-Trump

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough slammed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Thursday by mocking his attire and arguing the former Freedom Caucus chairman thinks “the American people are stupid enough” to believe that members of special council Robert Mueller’s investigative team have an agenda against President Trump.

“Jim Jordan thinks the American people are stupid enough — maybe because he’s not wearing a jacket, he’s one of us; hey, look at him, he’s — and his tie is untied,” said co-host Scarborough on “Morning Joe,” referring to the conservative lawmaker’s appearance at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

“He’s a hard-working guy,” interjected panelist Mike Barnicle.

“Why doesn’t he just roll up his sleeves and put on a hard hat?” Scarborough mocked.

“So Jim Jordan is saying that now that they’re actually getting close to figuring out what went on and people have already admitted to wrongdoing and may serve time. His national security adviser may serve time,” he continued.

Jordan said to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during a Judiciary hearing on Wednesday that he thinks “the public trust in this whole thing is gone,” referring to the Mueller investigation into possible Russia collusion with Trump associates during the 2016 campaign.

“They’re now saying, why aren’t you disbanding this investigation? How stupid do they think we are? How stupid are they? And how stupid do they think we are?” Scarborough, a former GOP congressman-turned-independent, said on Thursday.

The Justice Department on Tuesday provided lawmakers with hundreds of text messages between FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, who was removed from the special counsel investigation last summer, and  his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, that include references to Trump as an “idiot” and a “loathsome human.”

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok said to Page. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40,” Strzok wrote in an Aug. 15, 2016, text.

Andrew Weissmann, a prosecutor on Mueller’s team, also praised former acting Attorney General Sally Yates earlier this year for her decision not to defend Trump’s ban on travel from several Middle East countries earlier this year, according to emails uncovered by the conservative group Judicial Watch.

The recent revelations have resulted in demands from conservative media members and Trump allies to call for a new special counsel to investigate the Justice Department and the FBI.