Lawrence O'Donnell slams NYT for false reporting that was 'a total victory for Donald Trump' [View all]
MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell dissected President Donald Trump’s escalating battle with United States intelligence agencies during “The Last Word” on Wednesday.
The host came to two major conclusions: that even The New York Times has failed in covering Trump and that directors of the CIA, FBI and NSA are only remaining in their jobs because they believe they have a duty to protect the American people from the commander-in-chief.
O’Donnell read Trump’s latest broadsides against the intelligence community on Twitter, in which he said, “the Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive” and “perhaps Intelligence should go back to school.”
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"“The New York Times initial reporting of what the president said today made no attempt at all to convey the profound presidential perversity of Donald Trump issuing a tweet this morning in which he screamed, ‘they are wrong’ at what he called ‘the intelligence people,'” O’Donnell explained.
“It is unusual for the president to pick a fight with his intelligence chiefs,” The New York Times published.
“That kind of reporting is total victory for Donald Trump,” O’Donnell declared. “The brainwashing is working. The outrage fatigue is working.”
“The New York Times is completely wrong. It is not unusual. What the president did today was not ‘unusual’ — it has never happened,” he continued. “To be unusual it has to have happened before, but not very often.”
“Unusual is not the word for what happened today,” he added.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/brainwashing-working-lawrence-odonnell-slams-nyt-false-reporting-total-victory-donald-trump/
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