About a half hour into President Donald Trump’s latest coronavirus briefing on Tuesday, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski sounded as if she had just about enough. “Trump is flat out l…
“Trump is flat out lying to the American people and right now our network and all networks should be cutting in to FactCheck him,” she wrote on Twitter. “If we’re going to carry these ridiculous briefings, we need to give it context and we need to fact check a President who has trouble with the truth.”
CNN covered Trump’s opening remarks and his Q&A with reporters. Then, after Trump exited the room, they went back to the studio, where chief national correspondent John King and reporter Daniel Dale tried to sift through some of his statements, to the point where King said that Trump was trying to spin some revisionist history.On Tuesday, there were many claims.
Trump did cast blame at the World Health Organization — which on Jan. 14 tweeted information from Chinese officials that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” — and then alternately told reporters that the U.S. would put a hold on funding to the group and that they are merely looking at doing so.
Later, though, NBC News’ Carol Lee noted that Trump himself cast a ballot by mail in Florida’s primary last month.“Because I am allowed to,” he responded. “That is called out of state. You know why I voted? Because I happened to be in the White House.”
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