Joe Scarborough called out GOP hypocrisy over President Donald Trump’s reported plan to declare a national emergency to fund the U.S.-Mexico border wall by playing a game he called, “What if Barack Obama?”
The co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” asked The New York Times’ conservative columnist Bret Stephens to imagine how conservatives would have reacted had the former president declared a national emergency instead of issuing an executive order on immigration in 2014.
Scarborough asked: “What if Barack Obama declared a national emergency on an issue that was actually at a better place than it had been in half a century but used that national emergency to seize private property from Texas ranchers, Texas farmers, Texas families and Texas small property, small business owners?”
Stephens claimed it was “a game I play all the time.”
He continued:
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