In Tuesday's crossover from The Rachel Maddow Show to The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell stated
Harder had demanded not only a retraction and apology but also a correction. Instead, the undoubtedly carefully vetted statement included "we don't know whether the information is inaccurate." Though a lawsuit, judging by the lawyer's threat, should be forthcoming, it will not ensue. Trump has made a cottage industry out of threatening to sue one entity or another, and then backing off.Also
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And this single source close to Deutsche Bank has told me
that the Trump-Donald Trump's loan documents there show that he has co-signers.
That's how he was able to obtain those loans. And that the co-signers are
Russian oligarchs.
That would explain, it seems to me, every kind word Donald
Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin, if true, and I stress the
if true part of this.
Trump family attorney Charles Harder on Wednesday threatened to sue the
network unless the latter chose to "retract, correct and apologize
for" what he contended were completely false remarks. In response, or
simply because MSNBC is a credible news organization, O'Donnell later led his program with
Last night on this show, I discussed information that wasn’t
ready for reporting. I repeated statements a single source told me about the
president’s finances and loan documents with Deutsche Bank, saying “if true” as
I discussed the information was simply not good enough. I did not go through
the rigorous verification and standards process here at MSNBC before repeating
what I heard from my source.
Had it gone through that process, I would not have been
permitted to report it. I should not have said it on air or posted it on
Twitter. I was wrong to do so.
This afternoon, attorneys for the president sent us a letter
asserting the story is false. They also demanded a retraction.
Tonight, we are retracting the story. We don’t know whether
the information is inaccurate. But the fact is, we do know it wasn’t ready for
broadcast, and for that I apologize.
Harder had demanded not only a retraction and apology but also a correction. Instead, the undoubtedly carefully vetted statement included "we don't know whether the information is inaccurate." Though a lawsuit, judging by the lawyer's threat, should be forthcoming, it will not ensue. Trump has made a cottage industry out of threatening to sue one entity or another, and then backing off.Also
Threatening to sue someone for misrepresenting your financial dealings while trying to keep all of your business and tax records from being made public makes your legal threats....a little weaker. https://t.co/ipVCWOK5ie— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) August 28, 2019
Discovery can be a real bitch.
O'Donnell (presumably) told the truth: one of his sources
had told him that Russian oligarchs co-signed for a loan Trump received from
Deutsche Bank. After the MSNBC host
issued the retraction, however, the President posted a tweet denying-
falsely or otherwise- that there were Russian co-signers, but also lying:
Crazy Lawrence O’Donnell, who has been calling me wrong from even before I announced my run for the Presidency, even being previously forced by NBC to apologize, which he did while crying, for things he said about me & The Apprentice, was again forced to apologize, this time.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2019
As usual, he lied not because he is unable to do otherwise. He lied because there is no reason not to. Thursday's focus, predictably, was on
O'Donnell rather than on the deceit of Donald J. Trump, holder of the position
previously known as Leader of the Free World.
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