MS NOW host Joe Scarborough was visibly stunned Thursday to report U.K. authorities had arrested former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal title last year amid questions about his past connection to late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“That’s right,” said Scarborough. “Prince Andrew has been arrested.”

Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew on his 66th birthday on “suspicion of misconduct in public office,” which Scarborough applauded as a seeming example of justice — before slamming “morally bankrupt” Republican members of Congress for failing to follow suit.

“All across the world … gravity still holds in government,” he said. “You know, JD Vance is always looking down the end of his little nose at Europe. Well, at least they have shame in Europe. If somebody was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, there are consequences.”

Scarborough continued, “No consequences here! And again, I keep saying it, Republicans are too stupid to listen to me because they’ve always been too stupid to do what’s in their best interest. This is your own base you’re screwing. This is your own base you’re ignoring.”

President Donald Trump has long tried to distance himself from his documented relationship with Epstein, and though he ultimately caved last year by signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act and forcing the release of remaining DOJ documents, Scarborough agreed with guest BBC reporter Katty Kay that the White House is still shielding “people that they want to protect.”

“And they’re protecting Republicans,” Scarborough said. “And so again, if you did something horrific or if you were extraordinarily close to Jeffrey Epstein, if you got caught lying time and time again about your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein … you’re off the hook!”

Scarborough noted, “This is the same party that talked about getting to the bottom of the Epstein files, which we’ve been talking about on this show since 2015 when very few people other than [Miami Herald reporter] Julie Brown in Miami were talking about it.”

The latest trove of Epstein files seem to suggest Andrew gave Epstein confidential information in 2010 and 2011 as the official U.K. trade envoy, including a brief detailing lucrative investment opportunities in the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province.

Andrew was previously accused by late Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre of sexually assaulting and abusing her when she was a minor in 2001, and agreed to an infamous sit-down interview with the BBC in 2019, which was so catastrophic it was adapted into a movie.

Scarborough on Thursday torched House Republicans and House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who decided not to attend Wednesday’s deposition of retail billionaire Les Wexner — who notably helped Epstein attain his exorbitant wealth.

“Comer and his committee doesn’t even care about the man who started this hellscape,” said Scarborough. “They don’t even show up for his deposition. That tells you how hypocritical and how morally bankrupt on this Epstein issue they are.”

He added, “And all the money and all the campaign stops by the president, all of that, that doesn’t help. That actually makes things worse for you, because you’re covering up for people who consorted with Jeffrey Epstein. Good luck with that.”

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