Joe Scarborough Reads Biden Admin The Riot Act Over Classified Docs Fumble: ‘Amateur Hour!’

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough held nothing back on Monday’s broadcast, ripping into President Joe Biden’s administration over what he thought was sloppy handling of the still-unfolding situation involving a number of classified documents discovered in the president’s possession.

Scarborough — along with his co-host and spouse Mika Brzezinski — appeared concerned that the Biden administration was having a hard time getting out in front of the story, arguing that the way it was coming out in short bursts was effectively death by a thousand paper cuts.

“It’s the drip, drip, drip that’s the problem right now. It’s a story they can’t totally seem to get their arms around,” Scarborough stated that White House Press Secretary Karinejean-Pierre appeared unprepared and that it would have been more sensible to bring in someone more familiar with the national security implications that Biden has the documents.

Scarborough suggested that John Kirby, a retired Admiral and coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council might be a good choice.

“By stumbling and bumbling around, by not getting their timeline right, by still saying, — we just showed a graphic that says — ‘an unknown number of documents found in Biden’s garage.’ No more unknown. No more unknowns,” Scarborough added, “At this stage, we’re two months in. They need to clean this up. They need to get, you know, amateur hour is over. They need complete transparency, and they just mishandled it from day one … I’m only saying it because it’s true.”

Scarborough isn’t the only one who has criticised the Biden administration’s handling of the discovery of the documents. Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor, said in an interview recent op-ed — published by Fox News — that Biden may have set himself up for failure when he claimed that the documents had been moved by accident. Biden argued that the fact that the documents were found in multiple locations lends credibility to the notion that they were intentionally moved.

Podcast host Joe Rogan took things a bit further, arguing that the administration’s response to the situation led him to believe that people within Biden’s own team were looking to have him exit the White House.