Trump campaign has 'really lost the plot' as new scandals pile up: MSNBC analyst

On Thursday morning the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was stunned by Donald Trump's faltering presidential campaign which is finding itself spending precious time pushing back on gaffes and scandals as it slips behind in the polls. With fill-in host Jonathan Lemire pointing to blowback from Trump's controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery for a photo-op which has resulted a furious backlash from veterans and their families, he also highlighted Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Noting that a complaint was made about Trump aides engaging in an altercation with a cemetery staffer that then allegedly led to Trump's spokesperson attacking that person afterward, Lemire remarked, "In a normal campaign, campaign of years past, if there had been an altercation between a staffer, a campaign staffer and someone who works the cemetery, it'd be the campaign staffer immediately fired or at least suspended." But that comment from Vance basically telling the vice president of the United States to 'go to hell,' that is completely anathema to what he said and yet another moment we are in a place of, having gone through a period of saying, well, the Trump campaign will take the rhetoric down in a sober-minded statement after the attempted assassination, and here we are, back at this point."