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Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, is the host of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC. He is a lawyer with Beggs and Lane, the oldest firm in Florida and a former publisher and editor of "The Florida Sun," a newspaper.

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Joe Scarborough
stated on September 11, 2018 in a newspaper column:

"President Trump’s Republican Party will create more debt in one year than was generated in the first 200 years of America’s existence."

By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2018
Joe Scarborough
stated on December 4, 2015 in on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

In the weekend after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the White House said "this couldn't happen in the United States. ISIS couldn't reach us here."

By Lauren Carroll • December 8, 2015
Joe Scarborough
stated on October 2, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

About "3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns."

By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2015
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 30, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Says the Clintons "burst through their own self-pronounced guidelines" by accepting foreign donations. "There is a clip of Bill Clinton saying we're not going to take foreign donations."

By Jon Greenberg • May 4, 2015
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 27, 2015 in a segment on 'Morning Joe':

Algeria "wanted to be taken off of the terror list" at the time it made an unreported donation to the Clinton Foundation.

By Katie Sanders • April 28, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet:

There are “many unanswered and obvious questions” about the 2001 death of a staff member of Joe Scarborough.

By Jon Greenberg • May 26, 2020

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