Scarborough: Giuliani has assumed ‘the role of henchman for President Trump’

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough attacked former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in a Washington Post op-ed published Thursday, accusing Giuliani of becoming a “henchman” for President Trump by joining the president’s legal team.

In the piece, the “Morning Joe” host praises the former Republican mayor’s efforts to clean up New York City during his time in office there, before lamenting Giuliani’s current status as Trump’s newest lawyer on his defense team as he battles Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation.

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“This week, that same man became the latest public figure to assume the role of henchman for President Trump, stooping so low as to slander the very law-enforcement institutions that made New York’s remarkable renaissance possible,” Scarborough writes.

“Why America’s Mayor would now allow himself to become Trump’s chump is beyond me,” the MSNBC host continues. “With many West Wing insiders openly questioning whether the 45th president will even finish his term, such shortsightedness makes no sense, even when viewed in the most cynical of lights.”

Scarborough, a frequent critic of the president, took particular issue with Giuliani’s assertion that FBI agents operating out of the bureau’s New York field office acted like Nazi “stormtroopers” when they raided the office of Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney.

“We can all thank God that Churchill, and not Giuliani, was on guard when Adolf Hitler’s actual stormtroopers sought to destroy England and lay waste to the rest of Western civilization. Because unlike Rudy Giuliani, Winston Churchill never blinked,” Scarborough concludes.

Giuliani shocked many in Washington this week when, during a televised interview on Fox News, he admitted that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 payment made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels before the election.

The admission reportedly took many in the White House by surprise, as Trump and Giuliani had reportedly plotted the public move without consulting other White House staffers.