MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Calls Out Media & Own Network Over Donald Trump Presser Coverage & Ignoring Kamala Harris

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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.