By Michael Woyton
Lawrence O’Donnell had a few choice words on his show Thursday night for the members of the press who were at former president Donald Trump’s “news” conference Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago country club.
The event was planned or mis-planned to avoid having any microphones placed so the actual questions could be heard. All that anyone viewing on television could hear clearly were the words coming out of the former president’s mouth. Even Trump had to ask the questions to be repeated frequently.
Whatever parts of the questions that could be heard seemed to have no relationship — or quickly lost any relationship — on what Trump was saying. At one point, The New York Times had a headline that generously called the press conference “meandering.”
Garrett Haake of NBC tweeted a transcript of his Q&A concerning mifepristone, showing the word salad that Trump produced.
O’Donnell said the reporters and their networks were doing the same thing they did in 2016: letting Trump say whatever he wanted for however long he wanted without even trying to push back on his lies and misrepresentations.
The host of the MSNBC 10 p.m. show said the media is giving Trump credit for having a “press conference,” and tacitly complaining that Kamala Harris hasn’t held a press conference, all while letting Trump continue to spout the same lies over and over again.
“Words spoken after [their questions] are not necessarily answers and are never answers when they come from Donald Trump,” O’Donnell said.
Some of the answers the former president gave were that nobody was killed on Jan. 6th at the U.S. Capitol, the crowd he spoke to before the riot was larger than MLK Jr. had, it was unconstitutional to replace President Biden with Harris for the upcoming election, everyone wanted abortion decisions to be made by each individual state and he was in a helicopter that went down in an emergency with former California politician Willie Brown.
There’s so much more. If you watch the video of the press conference, pause it now and again to Google what he was saying.
“A lie is never an answer,” O’Donnell said, adding that any reporter who says that Trump answered their questions is lying to their readers.
You can watch Trump’s complete press conference through this C-SPAN link.
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