'Won't go well': Morning Joe warns Trump he's already lining up midterm bloodbath

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called on Republican senators to block some of Donald Trump's most extreme and unqualified nominees for Cabinet positions, and predicted electoral consequences if they did not.

The former president picked Matt Gaetz as his attorney general nominee despite a House Ethics Committee investigation into sex trafficking allegations against him, and Trump has suggested that GOP senators should step aside and allow him to make recess appointments without an up-or-down vote in Senate confirmation hearings.

"You can predict the future by shaping the future, but the reason I wanted to talk about that one-fourth of Americans that voted for Donald Trump, about one-fourth for Kamala Harris, is there's another election in two years," Scarborough said.

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"Now I don't care who wins and how big they win, we've seen time and again — and we talk about it. Americans go back and forth and back and forth with their picks. If Republicans, if Donald Trump, if Republican senators put in as attorney general, somebody that three women have testified, I believe, if I'm correct, he had sex with an underaged woman at a drug-fueled party — and what I read in the Wall Street Journal was he paid two other women for sex. If that is something that Republican senators and Donald Trump are okay with, there will be consequences at the voting booth two years from now."

Voters rarely give parties a sweeping mandate, Scarborough said, and he said they usually swept them out right away when they govern as if they do.

"We always say, 'Oh, we won, oh, we won – oh, we can do whatever we want' – really?" Scarborough added. "Because that's what I heard a lot of Democrats saying after Barack Obama won, and two years later the Tea Party came roaring into town.

"This and other of these picks, Republicans would be smart to advise and consent, and Donald Trump would be smart to back off of them in two or three of these cases because there are elections two years from now, and things just won't go well."

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