'Sigh': MS Now's Morning Mika despairs as she calls out blatant Trump lie

MS NOW's Mika Brzezinski sighed in exasperation as she listened to President Donald Trump lying about winning elections in a state he lost three times.

The 79-year-old president spoke to his former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino on his podcast, where he falsely claimed to have won in Minnesota in each of his races and then argued that Republicans should nationalize and take over elections in at least 15 states.

"Nope, he did not win the state," she said. "President Trump making more false election claims. He has never won the state of Minnesota, not once – nope."

Brzezinski sighed heavily, and then host Joe Scarborough jumped in to point out that Trump would lose even worse if he were on the ballot this year after his immigration surge had led to the shooting deaths of two Americans by federal agents.

"If he in fact, if he ran, if he ran this year, it would be a landslide defeat," Scarborough said. "He would be crushed now, after what's happened in Minnesota over the past several months. But no, never won, again, there were 63 federal judges, many of them appointed by Republicans, many of them appointed by Donald Trump, who looked over all the facts and said, and I think this is they were quoting Louis Brandeis, looking at the complaints and would just say, this is, and threw them all out.

"All 63, the United States Supreme Court, also using the same language as Brandeis for those challenges that went up to the United States Supreme Court. I think Learned Hand also would use that phraseology once in awhile.

"He knows he's lying, the people around him knows know he's lying," Scarborough added. "They know he didn't win. All the trump-appointed judges know he didn't win. All the Republicans that were running elections in Georgia and Arizona and counting votes in Michigan know he didn't win. All the Republicans in Pennsylvania that were election officials that were counting votes know he didn't win, and most importantly, he knows he didn't win because after the election, he would go around grousing to people saying, 'I can't believe I lost to Joe Biden.'"

The panelists wondered why Trump-friendly broadcasters and podcast hosts never pushed back on his election lies, and Brzezinski suggested they simply didn't want to bruise his ego.

"I feel bad, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but he absolutely lost and never won Minnesota," she said. "Never won it, and it's it's important to get the facts. So sad."

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