Lawrence O’Donnell ripped CNN and anchor Jake Tapper for selling an interview with President Donald Trump over the weekend that was performed by way of textual content, declaring, “The artwork of the Sunday morning interview reached a brand new darkish low yesterday.”
“Donald Trump has turn out to be more durable to get on Sunday morning, however the desperation [to book him] stays and, I suppose, deepens,” the “Final Phrase with Lawrence O’Donnell” host remarked Monday evening. “Yesterday morning, CNN offered a so-called interview with [Trump] that they will’t even show was [done by] Donald Trump.” O’Donnell was then left visibly outraged and baffled by a clip of Tapper teasing his textual content interview with Trump.
“What? You gave him the questions in writing? So now as a substitute of letting Trump conceal in a cellphone name the place we will no less than know that it’s him speaking, Donald Trump will get to cover behind the black display of texting,” O’Donnell mentioned. “We truly don’t know who texted the replies in that so-called interview. CNN is unable to show that Donald Trump was truly doing that texting. CNN has not revealed how lengthy it took to get a reply to every of the 5 written questions that apparently acquired replies.”
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O’Donnell was taken much more aback by Tapper’s notice that there have been further texts he despatched Trump that the president didn’t reply to. “What have been these questions?” O’Donnell requested. “Precisely which questions did Donald Trump refuse to reply? What might be extra related in reporting an alternate that’s alleged to be with the President of the US than together with the questions he refused to reply?”
“We don’t know what the opposite questions have been,” the MSNBC host noticed. “When the historical past of Donald Trump’s psychological decline is written, it would little doubt embody that so-called interview yesterday as a turning level in Donald Trump’s White Home coping with the problem of Donald Trump attempting to reply questions throughout this era of apparent psychological decline.” Earlier than transferring on, O’Donnell made certain to get a couple of extra pictures in on CNN and Trump.
“They gained’t inform us how lengthy it takes Donald Trump, or his stand-in, to ship these solutions, they usually gained’t inform us what questions Donald Trump, or his stand-in, refuses to reply,” the “Final Phrase” anchor somberly mentioned. “The deviancy of Donald Trump solely strikes in a single course: down.”
