MSNBC’s Frank Figliuzzi Torches White House Press Pool Failure To Fact-Check Trump ‘Lies’ In Real Time

NBC News National Security Contributor Frank Figliuzzi told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah that the press corps covering President Donald Trump is failing to follow up or fact-check Trump press events that are “full of lies.”

Figliuzzi was a guest on Thursday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, during which Obeidallah broached the subject of a press corps that he believes should note Trump’s “criminal” history every time they report something he says “without evidence.”

Mr. Figliuzzi agreed, and added criticism of his own:

DEAN OBEIDALLAH: The other part too, I mean look the media is some of the media is part of the corporate world, some they do the best they can, and maybe they’re not well suited for all this, but when they write down, “well, the administration said, for example, defending the deportation of someone by citing thing, and they didn’t give us any evidence.”.

You know, you might wanna add, the administration headed by a guy convicted of 34 felonies for cheating in the 2016 campaign, who was charged with four felonys for cheating the 2020 campaign, who incited a terrorist attack and was charged with 31 violations of the Espionage Act.

So maybe you shouldn’t believe anything the regime says until you have some evidence, as opposed to just printing it, like they say like it’s a normal administration.

This is not, it’s headed by a convicted felon who wanted to end our democracy after 2020.

FRANK FIGLIUZZI: It’s, yes, you’re right. This is big corporate media. And yes, decisions come down from the C-suite on editorials and what they’re gonna cover or not and how they’re going to cover it or not and how much pushback they’re gonna actually try or not.

Just recently in the meeting that Trump had with the Salvadoran president. Only one reporter asked about, you know, the issue of bringing back Garcia, the Maryland father, and then there was no follow-up.

And I think that’s where I’m really focusing, Dean, is when I listen closely to questions asked at press conferences, there are sometimes decent questions asked, but then there is no real-time fact check or follow- up with regard to the response.

And the responses are often filled with lies. So, you know, we we don’t see that happening and this idea that they would sit reporters serious journalists would sit there and listen to nonsense about “oh, well, we don’ have any authority to get this guy out of El Salvador.”.

That’s the El Salvadorans and the El Salvadoran president saying I don’t have any authority to give this guy up. So, and everybody just sitting there taking notes that that is what really gets me.

Watch the clip above via SiriusXM’s The Dean Obeidallah Show.