MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Lashes Out at Media Over Trump’s ‘Demented Hallucination’
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell went off on the media over what he called President Donald Trump’s “self-administered dementia test” — a “hallucination” involving former President Joe Biden and the FBI.
O’Donnell has consistently assailed the press over what he sees as a double standard in the treament of Trump and Biden — especially with regard to their respective mental and physical faculties.
On Monday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, O’Donnell slammed the press for ignoring Trump’s dead-of-night post accusing Biden of a bonkers conspiracy regarding events that actually took place while Trump was president.
Without naming him, O’Donnell appeared to single out CNN’s Jake Tapper:
O’DONNELL: Well, just after midnight, the night before Donald Trump left Washington headed for Israel and Egypt, he had one of his most serious hallucinations yet.
It was another Trump self-administered dementia test that he published on social media. At 12:38 a.m., Donald Trump said the Biden FBI placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6th. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a scam. Do something. Three exclamation points.
Okay, a couple of things. First, Joe Biden never interfered with the FBI. Joe Biden never told a couple hundred FBI agents what to do the way Donald Trump does.
And second, Joe Biden was not president when a Trump mob attacked the Capitol on January 6th. Donald Trump was president that day, and Donald Trump was clearly hoping that the Trump mob would succeed in their mission to overturn a presidential election. Trump apparently now has no memory of telling that violent crowd to go to the Capitol and fight like hell. Donald Trump now apparently has no memory of telling those people the lie that he would come with them to the Capitol.
President Trump apparently now does not remember that he sat in the White House alone in a room beside the Oval Office, watching his mob attack the Capitol for 187 minutes without saying a word about it and without doing anything about it at all. Donald Trump no longer remembers that he was president on January 6th, and actually no longer remembers that he didn’t tell the FBI what to do that day.
That was one day when Donald Trump had no orders for the FBI. Donald Trump did not tell the military what to do that day. Trump didn’t tell anyone what to do that day, but he doesn’t remember any of that now.
It was Vice President Mike Pence who took over the authority of the presidency during the attack on the Capitol and did everything he could from the executive branch to order reinforcements rushed to the Capitol.
This is yet another Trump revelation that for any other president, especially Joe Biden, would be taken as proof that he is mentally incapable of doing the job of president. Just imagine what would have happened.
If Joe Biden had ever said that he was president during the January 6th attack on the Capitol. If Biden had said something like that when he was president, you know how loud the screams in the news media would be for him to immediately resign the presidency? And you know exactly who those screams would come from?
Not one of those people has a problem with Donald Trump doing exactly that. Trump hallucinated in the middle of the night Saturday that he was not president on January 6th, and that Joe Biden was.
And that hallucination, public hallucination has come and gone without comment from the news media and the politicians who went after Joe Biden. If Joe Biden got the name of a country wrong or one word wrong in a sentence.
On Friday, the governor of Illinois said this about Donald Trump.
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GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D), ILLINOIS: I do think he needs mental health help. And I don’t think anybody around him that works for him is going to do that because they’re benefiting from his failure of mental health, his dementia. I wish somebody would help out the president of the United States.
Meanwhile, I — you know, he says a lot of crazy things. He doesn’t have authority to arrest elected officials or really anybody where you don’t have any, you know, example of a crime being committed.
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Watch above via MSNBC’s The Last Word.
