Lawrence O’Donnell wasn’t having it with cable information shops for his or her protection of former President Donald Trump’s rambling, false claim-filled press convention on Thursday.
The MSNBC anchor learn a “good query” to Trump from NBC Information’ Garrett Haake, who asked the former president if he’d direct the Meals and Drug Administration to revoke entry to mifepristone.
Trump’s response to the “sure or no” query was “not a solution,” mentioned O’Donnell, who slammed his papers on his desk after studying what the former president told Haake.
“The phrases Donald Trump spoke to these reporters in response to that clear, easy and essential sure or no query had been an insult to everybody in that room and so they took the insult. Nothing in these phrases was a solution, nothing,” O’Donnell mentioned.
He later continued, “Donald Trump shouldn’t be sensible sufficient to reply questions. Anybody who then tells you that Kamala Harris has to reply questions from reporters as a result of Donald Trump already answered questions from reporters is mendacity to themselves and to you and it’s essential to not permit them to do it.”
O’Donnell ripped cable information networks for carrying the occasion stay and known as it “2016 yet again,” including that shops are making the “identical errors” with their reporting as they did whereas masking Trump that election cycle.
He additionally criticized reporters for not asking follow-up questions and knocked networks for fact-checking solely after Trump completed talking.
“However that in fact is means too late and totally ineffective,” O’Donnell mentioned.
O’Donnell additionally knocked networks for not masking Vice President Kamala Harris’ Michigan speech stay after the Trump presser, noting that his community was doing Olympics protection earlier than bringing viewers the previous few minutes of her remarks.
He vowed to “appropriate that mistake” by presenting MSNBC viewers with full, unedited video of Harris’ speech.
“The entire networks knew [the speech] was coming, they knew what time it was coming, they knew how one can cowl it stay and so they didn’t after giving Donald Trump greater than an hour of stay protection on all of their networks. It’s 2016 yet again,” he mentioned.
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