MSNBC host Joe Scarborough told the “Morning Joe” audience on Thursday that he is “skeptical” of the timing of the allegations that Donald Trump sexually harassed various women.
“I’m not skeptical of the women’s stories. I’m skeptical about the timing of all this dropping — talk about an October surprise when, again, as you said, there have been a thousand triggering events that would have made sense,” Scarborough stated in response to a question from Mike Barnicle. “If I had been sexually harassed by this man, the Megyn Kelly story would have given me an opportunity. There have been a thousand of these reports already.”
“I’m just asking why all of a sudden this stuff is blowing up in October?” he continued. “Perhaps it’s all innocent. Perhaps there is no oppo drop. Perhaps it’s not coordinated. I’m just saying I’m only agreeing — I’m only agreeing with Mark Halperin that we need to remain skeptical.”
“And I have found over my 25 years in public life that being skeptical usually pays off in the end. We will find out the truth about why these stories dropped, when they dropped, if anybody had anything to do with the timing of it outside of The New York Times. We will find that out in years to come. So I’m just saying skepticism is a good thing.”
Scarborough further noted that “this campaign, though, is really sinking to an extraordinarily low level.”
“We are now going to be having women put in front of the camera by both sides now, and given the state of this country and the state of our politics, it is really, really sad.”