MSNBC Host Floats Trump Cover-Up — No Proof He Could Walk Or ‘Speak Coherently Today’
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell floated a cover-up of severe health and mental deficits in President Donald Trump, suggesting he may not have been able to stand, walk, or even “speak coherently” on Wednesday.
After opening the week with a high-stakes summit and some patio DJing, Trump’s schedule for Wednesday featured no public or open-to-the-press events.
On Wednesday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, O’Donnell opened the show with a blistering commentary that began with speculation about Trump’s physical and mental condition:
O’DONNELL: “We’re not meeting to talk about the Epstein situation.”
Those are the actual words of the least believable vice president in history today in the Oval Office when his plans for a meeting at the vice president’s residence tonight to talk about the Epstein situation leaked so widely including to NBC News that James David Vance had to deny that he was planning a meeting to talk about the Epstein situation.
He didn’t deny the meeting. He simply said, “We’re not meeting to talk about the Epstein situation.”
Every meeting is about the Epstein situation. Every Trump event and every Trump meeting, Trump administration meeting, Trump White House meeting is about the Epstein situation. Everything Donald Trump and everyone in his White House is doing all day, every day now is about the Epstein situation. It’s about how to extract Donald Trump from his personal history with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, who said, quote, “I was Donald’s closest friend for 10 years.”
That meeting in the Oval Office today, where Donald Trump said he was going to impose an illegal, unconstitutional, percent tariff on computer chips, was about the Epstein situation. It was about distracting attention from the Epstein situation. And it worked with almost all the White House reporters in the room who were allowed to ask questions.
Thirty-three questions were allowed from the White House press corps in that room and exactly four of them were about the Epstein situation. Actually, two questions each with a follow-up which is really two questions about the Trump situation because there is no Epstein situation. Jeffrey Epstein is dead. And as long as Donald Trump is alive, Donald Trump should face questions and suspicions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
And the White House press corps should unite in its pursuit of answers to those questions. But the current White House press corps has no idea how to do that. The current White House press corps is mostly lost. And so, each time Donald Trump was asked about Jeffrey Epstein today, the next reporter asking a question immediately changed the subject, which is exactly what Donald Trump wanted that reporter to do, exactly what Donald Trump is counting on from those reporters.
We have never had a more reliably weak White House press corps when presenting questions to a president of the United States. Catherine Lucey of “Bloomberg” asked a good question about Jeffrey Epstein with a quick follow-up.
And Nancy Cordes of CBS asked a quick question — asked a question about Ghislaine Maxwell, good question. Meeting with Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer with a quick follow-up. And not another reporter in the room asked a question about Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell or Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell or Ghislaine Maxwell being switched to a low security prison which she was not qualified to be transferred to and which is now involving extra expense for taxpayers because the security at that prison had to be enhanced simply because that one sex criminal has arrived at that prison. The only sex criminal ever to be assigned to that low security prison.
Watch above via MSNBC’s The Last Word.
