Morning Joe Scarborough accuses Melania Trump of hypocrisy and 'faux outrage' for attacking Democrats' witness who dragged in Barron -- saying she never criticized the president for 'face-shaming my wife'

  • First lady Melania Trump shamed Democratic impeachment witness Pamela Karlan for name-dropping Barron Trump during Wednesday's hearing 
  • 'The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son Barron, he can't make him a baron,' Karlan had said
  • The first lady said Wednesday that Karlan 'should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering' 
  • Thursday on 'Morning Joe,' co-host Joe Scarborough slammed Melania for 'faux outrage' saying she sat by when the president attacked his wife, Mika Brzezinski 
  • Trump had claimed in 2017 that Brzezinski slammed him on the air because he wouldn't hang out with her at his Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve party
  • The president tweeted then that she was 'bleeding badly from a face-lift'

By David Martosko, U.S. Political Editor and Nikki Schwab, Senior U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

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Joe Scarborough blasted Melania Trump and Mike Pence on Thursday after the first lady complained about a combative congressional witness name-checking 13-year-old Barron Trump during a House impeachment hearing.

The 'Morning Joe' co-host accused Mrs. Trump of venting 'faux outrage,' saying she had never complained publicly when Donald Trump used his Twitter account to attack Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough's wife and on-air no. 2. 

Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan had invoked Barron Trump's name to joke that in America's anti-aristocratic system of government, President Donald Trump can't make him an actual baron. 

Speaking moments later at a campaign event in Michigan, Pence called it 'a new low' and demanded an end to impeachment hearings. 

Melania never commented publicly when president, pictured in November with her and Barron, blasted Brzezinski and claimed she was 'bleeding badly from a face-lift' when he saw her on New Year's Eve after the 2016 election

Melania never commented publicly when president, pictured in November with her and Barron, blasted Brzezinski and claimed she was 'bleeding badly from a face-lift' when he saw her on New Year's Eve after the 2016 election

Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan used Barron Trump as an example when she tried to describe the differences in powers between a president and a king

Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan used Barron Trump as an example when she tried to describe the differences in powers between a president and a king 

The first lady called out Karlan, one of the Democrats' three impeachment witnesses

The first lady called out Karlan, one of the Democrats' three impeachment witnesses

The first lady tweeted: 'A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.'

Scarborough called her out. 

'By the way, Melania Trump, I’m still waiting for her to ask her husband to apologize for face-shaming my wife, lying about my wife, saying that she was bleeding badly from a facelift, taking a personal conversation, a private conversation and she ... never did anything,' he said. 

'I think she actually attacked Mika. And for her husband lying and face-shaming and talking about, you know, seriously ... think about all the people that Donald Trump has attacked viciously and Melania Trump has quietly sat by and said nothing.' 

Melania was defending her son's privacy; Scarborough called it selective and 'faux outrage'

The president declared all-out war on Brzezinski in June 2017, following a stinging slap on her morning MSNBC show. 

'I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!' he claimed. 

That claim of a face-life that left Brzezinski bleeding left a mark, and days later she and Scarborough co-signed a Washington Post op-ed to respond.  

Brzezinski 'never had a face-lift,' they insisted, while conceding that she did 'have a little skin under her chin tweaked, but this was hardly a state secret.' 

Karlan apologized hours later during Wednesday's hearing after hearing Melania's tweet read aloud. 

'I want to apologize earlier for what I said earlier about the president's son,' she said, noting she was happy to admit when she was wrong. 

'I wish the President would apologize, obviously, for the things he's done that's wrong but I do regret having said that,' she added, softening her apology.

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