Lawrence ODonnell Slams MSNBC for Trump Presser Coverage [Video]

MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell torched major cable networks, including his own, for airing former President Donald Trump’s press conference on Thursday, saying “It’s 2016 all over again.”

“Donald Trump spoke at his home in Florida for over an hour and all of the cable news networks, including this one, carried it live just like they all did repeatedly in 2016,” O’Donnell said during his MSNBC show. 

The host added that it “would be hard to find a sentence in what Donald Trump said today that did not include at least one lie.” O’Donnell acknowledged that some of the networks attempted to fact-check Trump after the fact, “but that, of course, is way too late and utterly useless,” he said. 

“No network even attempted to fact-check every lie Donald Trump told,” O’Donnell continued. “Every network has the capacity, especially with these wide screens we now have at home, to run a …