Lawrence O’Donnell Slams His Papers Over Media Taking This ‘Insult’ From Trump | EUROtoday

Lawrence O’Donnell wasn’t having it with cable information retailers 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 question” to Trump from NBC News’ Garrett Haake, who requested the previous president if he’d direct the Food and Drug Administration to revoke entry to mifepristone.

Trump’s response to the “yes or no” query was “not an answer,” stated O’Donnell, who slammed his papers on his desk after studying what the previous president advised Haake.

“The words Donald Trump spoke to those reporters in response to that clear, simple and important yes or no question were an insult to everyone in that room and they took the insult. Nothing in those words was an answer, nothing,” O’Donnell stated.

He later continued, “Donald Trump is not smart enough to answer questions. Anyone who then tells you that Kamala Harris has to answer questions from reporters because Donald Trump already answered questions from reporters is lying to themselves and to you and you must not allow them to do it.”

O’Donnell ripped cable information networks for carrying the occasion stay and known as it “2016 all over again,” including that retailers are making the “same mistakes” 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.

“But that of course is way too late and utterly useless,” O’Donnell stated.

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 couple of minutes of her remarks.

He vowed to “correct that mistake” by presenting MSNBC viewers with full, unedited video of Harris’ speech.

“All of the networks knew [the speech] was coming, they knew what time it was coming, they knew how to cover it live and they didn’t after giving Donald Trump more than an hour of live coverage on all of their networks. It’s 2016 all over again,” he stated.

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