MSNBC host Joe Scarborough sounded off on what he feels are Republican priorities during the coronavirus pandemic.
During Thursday’s broadcast of the network’s show Morning Joe, Scarborough said Republicans are content on letting veterans from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam die from COVID-19 as long as corporations like Boeing remain economically afloat amid the outbreak.
“But those Vietnam vets, they’re being left behind, and it seems that Republicans now are making the argument: ‘Let the World War II vets die. Let the Korean vets die. Let the Vietnam vets die. Let everybody in that generation die because we’re worried about Boeing,'” he said.
“They want Boeing, who gets, by the way, $17 billion bailout by this package after killing people because of their selfishness, because of their greediness,” he added.
Scarborough then said he believes the GOP response to the virus makes Democrats seem more “pro-life,” accusing Republicans of being willing to sacrifice the “born.”
“Right now, these conservatives are making Democrats who are pro-choice actually look more pro-life because they’re only worried about the unborn. It is the born, it is the weakest among us, it is senior citizens who they’re ready to euthanize because they want Boeing’s corporate earnings to not dip too low,” he continued.
Over 480,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus globally. Of those, at least 21,500 have died from it, and more than 115,800 have recovered. In the United States, there have been at least 69,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, more than 1,000 deaths, and 619 reported recoveries, according to the latest reading of the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
