'Walking perjury machine' Trump 'knew he wasn't going to testify': Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Donald Trump's refusal to testify in his hush money trial after boasting that he would take the stand.

The former president has been promising to testify in a trial he calls a "scam," but ultimately the defense rested after calling only two witnesses – neither of them Trump – and the "Morning Joe" host wondered how anyone could be surprised.

"I mean, the story of his life," Scarborough said. "Who's shocked? Nobody is shocked. This is a guy that said, of course, 'I'm going to testify, I'm going to testify.' You knew he wasn't going to testify for a couple reasons. One, he's just a walking perjury machine. Seriously, you got a new [Ninja brand] ice cream machine that you say makes ice cream really quickly? Well, he's a Ninja perjury machine, right? You stand in front of it and it creates instant perjury. So we all knew he was lying, and it is a lie all along. He knew he wasn't going to testify."

Scarborough placed Trump's promises to testify in context with other promises he's made to offer an alternative to the Affordable Care Act and lay out a policy on abortion rights.

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"Again, I wonder who is stupid enough to believe him, right?" Scarborough said. "I wonder why his voters that keep going back to this guy when -- because it's not just about -- it's about everything. 'Oh, you know what, I've got to plan for abortion that everybody's going to love and I'm going to talk about it,' and then he comes back on states rights and then he goes, 'I've got a plan for health care, it's two weeks away.' Of course, those two weeks turn into two more weeks. He has no plan for health care because he has no plan for anything positive for America. Yesterday, we'll get to this in a second, what about contraception? 'Oh, I've got a plan for that, you're going to love it – it's a smart plan, we're going to take it back to the states and then, again, you know, we'll take it back to the states,' which means that Clarence Thomas was right. First they were coming for abortion, then they were going for contraception and marriage equality and keep going on."

"That's what he believes in his heart, and then he gets back -- for a guy that really doesn't believe anything that is one thing he believes," he added.

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