.png)
2 months ago
17 ARTICLE AD
Lawrence O’Donnell had The Last Word on Thursday night on MSNBC. The news anchor called out the media, including his network, for covering Donald Trump‘s press conference in full and ignoring Kamala Harris.
O’Donnell took to his late-night show to blast the media for not fact-checking Trump, who held a press conference in his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, saying, “It was 2016 all over again.”
“It would be hard to find a sentence in what Donald Trump said today that did not include at least one lie,” O’Donnell said on his show. “Some of the networks tried to play catchup with fact-checking after Donald Trump finished speaking but, that of course, is way too late and utterly useless. No network even attempted to check every lie Donald Trump told.”
O’Donnell noted that “every network has the capacity, especially with these wide screens we now have at home, to run a live scroll at the side of the screen” to fact-check Trump in real time.
The MSNBC anchor used as an example when Trump said Kamala Harris wasn’t smart enough to run a press conference, the network could’ve noted her academic accomplishments.
O’Donnell then highlighted Trump’s inability to answer reporters’ questions at the press conference. The newscaster highlighted a question from NBC News reporter Garrett Haake, who asked Trump if he would direct the Food and Drug Administration to revoke access to mifepristone. O’Donnell read Trump’s exact answer to the yes or no question, adding, “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.”
“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 said.
O’Donnell also called out the cable news networks for not covering Harris’ speech in Michigan live as they did with Trump’s presser.
“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 said.
O’Donnell added that he would “correct that mistake” by airing Harris’ appearance in Michigan in full.
Watch O’Donnell’s full segment in the video below.
