MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough torched Republicans on Capitol Hill for pushing "one twisted conspiracy theory after another" in order to defend a report in The New York Times that claims President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE.

In an op-ed in The Washington Post, Scarborough accuses GOP lawmakers of spreading "preposterous narratives" about the FBI, the Justice Department and Mueller's special counsel office.

"Wild tales of secret societies, Obama wiretaps and 'deep-state' conspiracies flow freely from the tongues of Trump apparatchiks. Those preposterous narratives are then spread across cable news networks and inside Capitol Hill cloakrooms," Scarborough wrote.

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"Trump’s corrupted coalition has instead trotted out one twisted conspiracy theory after another, all designed to distract the president’s most fevered fans and concoct a case against Mueller’s investigation," he said.

Scarborough, a top critic of the president since the campaign, pointed out that White House counsel Don McGahn reportedly threatened to quit over the order to fire Mueller, forcing Trump to back down.

"Imagine that," Scarborough continued. "Beneath the blizzard of news headlines pounding ceaselessly at our nerves, this week we discovered a Republican loyalist willing to sacrifice his political standing over a higher principle."

"McGahn’s stand contrasts greatly with Capitol Hill conservatives who do little more than occasionally tweet a veiled critique of the president or deliver a meaningless speech from the Senate floor," he added.

"As a storm gathers over Washington and the world, Donald Trump’s Republican Party remains complicit in his frenzied efforts to undermine the American institutions and established values that conservatives once claimed to share," he said, blasting the GOP, of which he is a former member.

The former Florida lawmaker's op-ed comes days after he said on his MSNBC show that "conspiracy theories" about the FBI and Justice Department pushed by Congress make the U.S. less safe.

"When these conspiracy theories are spread for political reasons — and solely political reasons — to protect the president who is not worth your protection with your lies, you are only making it more difficult for our law enforcement officers to protect your family and mine against Islamic terrorism and homegrown terrorism that you supposedly fear so much," said Scarborough on Thursday.