MSNBC Host Lawrence O’Donnell Slams His Own Network on Air Over Trump’s Press Conference
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell launched a scathing attack on the way cable news networks—including his own—covered Donald Trump’s press conference on Thursday.
In his opening monologue on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, the host vented his frustrations at the media for failing to “fact-check every lie” Trump told during live coverage of the event at Mar-a-Lago. “Donald Trump spoke at his home in Florida for over an hour and all of the cable news networks, including this one, carried it live just like they all did repeatedly in 2016,” he said.
Trump did share some staggering untruths during the press conference, incorrectly claiming to have once survived a helicopter crash with an ex-boyfriend of Vice President Kamala Harris and wrongly asserting that more people turned up for his speech in front of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, than Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 (King’s crowd was around 25 times bigger, according to the Associated Press).