Joe Scarborough: “Covering for pedophiles seems to have become a nasty habit for Trump’s Republican Party”

MS NOW host Joe Scarborough argues that Republicans have settled on an ugly closing message for the fall campaign: shielding people accused of sexually abusing children. He points to several episodes from the past week. Republicans attacked Amy Acton, who survived child rape, and Donald Trump called the episode "pay dirt" while commending her mother, the wife of the man charged with raping Acton at age 12, for courage. Scarborough notes that the mother left the state with that man and never saw her children again. In Texas, he says, Attorney General Ken Paxton sought a one-day jail sentence for a man who abused a young boy, a deal Scarborough compares to the one Jeffrey Epstein received. James Talarico now labels Paxton a "pedophile protector."

Scarborough then ties these cases to the Epstein files. He says voters elected Republicans partly on a pledge to release everything, yet the administration still holds millions of documents, some containing allegations against Trump. Congress voted almost unanimously for release and then left town, while survivors kept pleading for disclosure. He also cites a New York jury's finding that Trump was liable for sexual abuse.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →