Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough admitted today that he was lied to by his MSNBC bosses about being taken off-air yesterday morning.

Scarborough claims he was told there would be one news feed across all NBC News platforms and that they were going to stay in breaking news mode after the assassination attempt.

But that never happened, he said, and he was very disappointed.

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So it sounds like MSNBC tricked Joe and Mika in order to keep them silent so that they wouldn’t embarrass the network by saying something stupid about the assassination attempt. Amazing.

You can tell Joe is hot about it even though he kept his cool on-air. He did say he’d never let this happen again.

But I can’t blame MSNBC because Joe is the worst of the entire Morning Joe lineup at spewing absolute hatred and lies against President Trump. They knew he’d say something like he wished the bullet wouldn’t have missed or something, which would have generated tons of anger and outrage at the network. So they lied to him in order to shut him up.