Scarborough Pens Op-Ed About Questioning Whether Donald Trump Can Read

The Morning Joe host once asked Donald Trump whether he can read.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough published a remarkable op-ed piece Thursday night where he recounted an interaction he and co-host Mika Brzezinski had with Donald Trump that led him to wonder if Trump knew how to read.

“Mika Brzezinski and I had a tense meeting with Trump following what I considered to be a bumbling debate performance in September 2015. I asked the candidate a blunt question,” the “Morning Joe” host wrote in his Washington Post op-ed.

Scarborough remembers asking Trump, “Can you read?”

“Awkward silence,” Scarborough notes.

Scarborough then asked Trump again, “do you read?”

He followed up asking if someone wrote Trump a “one-page paper on a policy, could you read it?”

“Taken aback, Trump quietly responded that he could while holding up a Bible given to him by his mother,” Scarborough wrote. “He then joked that he read it all the time.”

Scarborough then turned his sights on his former party, asking Republicans what would “finally move” them to “deliver a non-­negotiable ultimatum to this unstable president.”

“Will they dare place their country’s interests above their own political fears?” Scarborough wrote.

“Or will they move to end this American tragedy only when there is nothing left to lose?”

Scarborough story about wondering if Donald Trump can read comes after two days of swirling chaos in the White House after the release of excerpts from Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

In the book, Wolff writes that many people close to Trump have said that he “was no more than semi-literate.”

Read the full Joe Scarborough op-ed here.

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