By PoliZette Staff | August 28, 2019
Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC is suddenly apologizing on Wednesday for an “error of judgment” he made on the air in regard to an anti-Trump report.
Last night on MSNBC, he delivered a report noting that Russian oligarchs “co-signed loans” that President Donald Trump supposedly obtained.
As Mediaite noted about it, “It [that report] was very thinly sourced, and even as he broke the report O’Donnell himself placed an ‘if true’ [caveat] on it.”
Both O’Donnell and MSNBC were, after that, heavily criticized for airing the report — and Trump’s attorney then sent NBC Universal a letter threatening legal action against them.
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On Wednesday afternoon, O’Donnell took to Twitter to say, “I was wrong to discuss it on the air” when it “didn’t go through our rigorous verification and standards process.”
See these others tweets in reaction to the story as well.
.@Lawrence O'Donnell: ‘I Was Wrong… I Made An Error in Judgment’ https://t.co/GVj2eCnhgJ
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) August 28, 2019
Trump Breaks MSNBC: Lawrence O'Donnell Apologizes for Deutsche Bank Claims https://t.co/7bU9nxElbY pic.twitter.com/OWb00qPYKJ
— RAY BAEZ (@raybae689) August 28, 2019
A cease & desist letter was sent from attorney’s for Trump’s company to MSNBC, NBC & O’Donnell. The story is false. Lawrence O’Donnell, any producer or whoever approved running with it should be terminated. This just plays into Trump’s narrative & further erodes trust in the MSM.
— Lois Cayce (@LBC1983) August 28, 2019
More bogus “reporting” from the liberal media. If Lawrence O’Donnell actually regretted his lies about @realDonaldTrump, he’d apologize. https://t.co/FxuZT4fJ2s
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) August 28, 2019
MSNBC should issue a public apology and suspend O’Donnell for his disgraceful reporting.
Will MSNBC do this? I doubt it.
— RD (@real_defender) August 28, 2019
Further proof that President Trump is 100% correct when he refers to certain media outlets as Fake News
— Oath Keeper (@JohnPar18288653) August 28, 2019
McDonnell also said he will be addressing the matter on his MSNBC program this evening.
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