An MSNBC host earned a startled laugh from Jill Biden during a live broadcast as she asked the First Lady about GOP attacks branding them the ‘Biden crime family.’ During Thursday morning’s edition of Morning Joe, host Mika Brzezinski sat down with Biden for an exclusive interview.
‘What do you think when you hear Trump Republicans calling you the Biden crime family?’ Brzezinski asked, pausing when the 72-year-old awkwardly laughed. ‘I have one congresswoman: The Biden crime family sold out America, Marjorie Taylor Greene,’ she continued, referencing the Georgia Republican’s previous remarks. ‘He’s a liar. He’s mentally incompetent.’ Biden shook her head. ‘And let’s not even talk about what ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ means, but you have U.S. senators holding signs that say that,’ Brzezinski said.
![The slogan dates back to 2021, when NASCAR fans chanted '[Expletive] Joe Biden' during winner Brandon Brown's post-race interview only to be misheard by a reporter. It has since become the rallying cry of the President's MAGA opponents, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz was once spotted posing with a sign sporting the motto at a baseball game. 'It's hard to realize our country, isn't it?' the First Lady said. 'I mean, to look at it, what we used to have, and what the other side, the extremists have turned this country into.'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/15/11/80006725-0-image-a-253_1705319926080.jpg)
The slogan dates back to 2021, when NASCAR fans chanted ‘[Expletive] Joe Biden’ during winner Brandon Brown’s post-race interview only to be misheard by a reporter. It has since become the rallying cry of the President’s MAGA opponents, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz was once spotted posing with a sign sporting the motto at a baseball game. ‘It’s hard to realize our country, isn’t it?’ the First Lady said. ‘I mean, to look at it, what we used to have, and what the other side, the extremists have turned this country into.’
Just a decade ago, ‘we would never see things like that,’ she explained. ‘This has got to be so different than any races that you and your husband have run,’ Brzezinski said, which Biden affirmed. ‘It is a little scary,’ the educator admitted. ‘I think it’s not just for me and for Joe, but just to see what happened.’ She continued: ‘I mean, look at the insurrection that took place. I mean, it’s just so hard to believe that the United States of America witnessed an insurrection. I think Americans were just stunned by that. I guess they’re being called by the front-runner, Republican front-runner, hostages,’ Brzezinski said, referencing former President Donald Trump’s long-running defense of the January 6 Capitol rioters.
‘Or patriots, you know, as he – he doesn’t call them what they were, insurrectionists, dangerous extremists,’ Biden said. ‘And you still want to be in the fight?’ Brzezinski asked. ‘Oh, that makes me want to be in the fight even more, because we have to win,’ Biden said. ‘We must win. We cannot let go of our democracy.’ Similar worries, including the concern that a second Trump presidency would function akin to a dictatorship, have only heightened amid the former President’s recent remarks.
Following his election inference hearing on January 9, the 77-year-old spoke to reporters at the Waldorf Astoria Washington D.C., formerly the Trump International Hotel. ‘A president has to have immunity,’ he said. ‘And the other thing was, I did nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong.’
He then argued in favor of immunity for all presidents, insisting that it would set a ‘very bad precedent’ if he was successfully prosecuted. ‘When they talk about the threat to democracy, that’s your real threat to democracy,’ Trump said of the case against him. ‘And I feel that as a president, you have to have immunity. Very simple.’ He insisted that he did ‘absolutely nothing wrong,’ adding: ‘And I worked very hard on voter fraud because we have to have free elections.’
One day later, President Biden’s son, Hunter, made a surprise appearance at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup. That day, the committee advanced a resolution to hold him in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to a request to testify to the House last month. He left the room when Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and devout Trump backer, happened to be speaking.
‘WOW – Hunter Biden fled the scene when I started exposing the truth behind the Biden Crime Family,’ Greene later tweeted. ‘Too bad his daddy can’t save him this time. We have mountains of evidence of Biden family corruption and foreign influence peddling and there will be accountability for these crimes.’ Hunter Biden’s daughter Naomi hit back at the Representative on social media, writing: ‘Actually, it appears everyone fled the scene when she started lying.’
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