‘Morning Joe’ Says Clarence Thomas Would Be Impeached at Lower Court for Billionaire’s Gifts: ‘What Is Going On?’ (Video)

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Clarence Thomas‘ many financial scandals. On the heels of the revelation that billionaire GOP donor Harlan Crow paid potentially in excess of $150,000 to send Thomas’ grandnephew, whom he was raising himself, to a private school, the MSNBC hosts made their skepticism of the justice clear. “Once again, it’s really hard not to see how this Supreme Court justice was not exposed to having his objectivity impacted — let’s just say it kindly — by all the gifts over the course of decades by a Republican donor,” Brzezinski said. “We try and be objective ourselves, but it’s hard not to notice his wife texting Mark Meadows and being completely involved in certain things that seem to be part of the ‘Big Lie.’ And then you wonder, ‘What is going on?'”Additional gifts to the justice include using Crow’s private plane, vacationing on Crow’s 162-foot super-yacht and spending time in resorts owned by the real estate developer.

Brzezinski was also referring to the hot water Ginni Thomas fond herself in during the Jan. 6 committee hearing. After the 2020 election, she was found to have sent texts to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, urging him to stand with Donald Trump as the former president claimed there was mass fraud in the election and called the election a “heist.” Scarborough dubbed Clarence Thomas’ latest scandal with Crow the latest in a “horrible two years, two and a half years for Justice Thomas’ legacy.” He also called out Republicans who are trying to dismiss this story, saying, “I can’t even begin to imagine what would happen” what their response would be if a similar story came out about a Democratic justice like Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan. “Let’s be really clear about this: Everybody at this table would be.