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'NEVER SAW THOSE DAYS': Scarborough Tries to Defend 'Best Biden Ever' Comment, Makes Predictable Trump Pivot [WATCH]

posted by Hannity Staff - 5.20.25

Scarbourough tries — and fails — to defend his “best Biden ever” comment.

“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough delivered a three-minute rant, repeatedly invoking President Donald Trump while defending his viral March 2024 claim that former President Joe Biden was “the best Biden ever,” both “intellectually” and “analytically.”

The clip became emblematic of corporate media’s long-standing effort to downplay Biden’s decline ahead of his disastrous June debate against Trump.

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When political analyst Mark Halperin pressed Scarborough on “Next Up with Mark Halperin” about whether his statement was “misleading”—given Biden’s clearly inconsistent performance—the MSNBC host refused to back down.

“I never saw those days personally,” Scarborough said.

The MSDNC host ultimately admitted that Biden “stumbled and bumbled,” but then made a hard pivot to Trump, of course.

“He stumbled and bumbled around, Mark. I mean, yeah, he certainly did. Donald Trump did,” Scarborough said. “Other politicians did … and it’s actually the same case as a lot of times when I’ve gone in and talked to Donald Trump, gone to Donald Trump, and I’ve heard the media narrative around Donald Trump — and certainly I’ve been very critical of Donald Trump — and when I leave, I have a better understanding, just like [The Atlantic editor-in-chief ] Jeffrey Goldberg did a couple of weeks ago. I have a better understanding of where Donald Trump is mentally — if Donald Trump is losing it, like, you know, people have said through the years or not.”

Scarborough said the viral clips of Biden were concerning — but that’s not the Joe he knew.

“When I look at that tape, based on what I saw with Biden, based on the time that I spent with Biden, based on the hundreds of hours that I talked to people who talked to Biden and people that worked with Biden and were with him day in and day out — good friends that I know, that I trusted before Biden was president, that I trust now that Biden’s not president — I mean, put into proper context, I’m just not going to freak out and melt down on one or two clips here or there,” Scarborough said. “And again, he bumbled around and he stumbled around, but he has for quite some time. That didn’t seem to me to get in the way of Joe Biden being able to analyze the most important issues. And I certainly think he has a better grasp on it than probably the overwhelming majority of his critics — or certainly did when I spoke with him.”

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