Joe Scarborough Accuses Media Outlets Of ‘Bending To The Will Of Donald Trump’

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough accused newspaper editorial boards Friday of “bending to the will” of Republican nominee Donald Trump by collectively refusing to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal have all made the decision to not endorse a presidential candidate ahead of the 2024 election, most of whom have a history of backing Democratic presidential candidates. Scarborough said that the outlets are enabling Trump by not endorsing Harris in response to the former president calling on former Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney to be placed on a battleground with “nine barrels shooting at her face.”

“Again, I want The Wall Street Journal editorial page to look at this because we’ve spending a lot of time, rightly, about The Washington Post bending to the will of Donald Trump, The Los Angeles Times bending to the will of Donald Trump and actually banning … banning editorials where their editorial team calls for Harris’ selection,” Scarborough said.

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WSJ’s editorial board published an opinion piece Wednesday that claimed Harris would be a continuation of the “progressive left” and will likely not break away from the current policies of President Joe Bide and the Democratic Party, and have continued their 96-year tradition of not endorsing a presidential candidate.

“But we have been searching in vain for signs that she would break from, or even temper, the progressive excess that defines the current Democratic Party,” the editorial board wrote. “Her endorsement by anti-Trump Republicans isn’t that sign because it’s based solely on loathing for Mr. Trump. A token GOP appointment to her cabinet would mean little unless it’s a major post.”

Scarborough accused WSJ of mocking those who express concerns about Trump in the final few days before the election, as the media and Democrats have accused the former president of wanting to use violence against his political opponents and govern as a dictator.

“I wonder Wall Street Journal editorial page, does this look like a meme to you or does this look like something that you, and The New York Times editorial page and The Washington Post editorial days and better days, and every editorial page and every politician on the Republican side and the Democratic side and independents would all come out speaking against this,” Scarborough continued. “But you have preemptively capitulated to a man who you think is going to win next Tuesday when many on his own side are panicking. They’re panicking and saying if we don’t get more young men out we are going to lose this race to Kamala Harris.”

The Washington Post’s publisher William Lewis said in an Oct. 25 op-ed that the paper will break away from its 40-year tradition of endorsing a presidential candidate and remain politically independent. The Los Angeles Times, who has endorsed the Democratic presidential nominees since 2008, decided not to make an endorsement for Harris.

Republished with permission from The Daily Caller News Foundation.