MSNBC's Joe Scarborough urged president Joe Biden to take on Donald Trump directly over his son's felony conviction on firearms charges.
The president and his Republican challenger are scheduled to face off June 27 in a debate, and the "Morning Joe" host encouraged Biden not to back down if Trump attacked his son Hunter Biden's conviction for lying about his drug use on a federal background check form and possessing a gun while addicted to, or using, illegal drugs.
"If I'm Joe Biden and I'm on the debate stage with Donald Trump and he starts talking about Hunter Biden as some sort of retort against his own 34 felonies, I would stop, I would turn, look around the stage and say, 'Excuse me, hold on, hold on – I don't see Hunter Biden up here,'" Scarborough said. "'Hold on, Donald, let me check, I don't see Eric over there – wait, wait, Eric's not here, so, I'm not running against Eric, I'm running against you, Donald, and you're not running against Hunter Biden or the ghost of Hunter Biden, who's not here, you're running against me, and up here, the two people that are going to run this country for the next four years, of the two of us, only one has been convicted of a felony – and you've been convicted of 34 felonies, Donald! So let's leave our kids out of this, let's leave our family out of this. You don't want me to start talking about what you and your kids and your in-laws did in your name to get rich off of your back during the presidency.'"
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"Boom! That's it, ends it, ends it, and you know what, he shouldn't take any crap from Trump and he needs to be ready because Donald Trump has 34 felony convictions, Joe Biden, none," Scarborough added. "Those are the two people on stage. Biden's people should double down right now and go harder at Trump than ever before on the fact that he's a convicted felon."
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