This is why Lawrence O'Donnell calls them the worst White House Press Corps Ever [View all]
Today was not the first time trump has held forth to the White House Press Corps with abandon, lying about matters great and small, making threats and calling names, and saying things that make no sense. Today he lied that Wes Moore told him he was the best president ever, said his poll numbers were sky high, threatened to send the military to blue cities, said he was the King of Europe, and more.
The press could not cover these propaganda filled diatribes. Or they could band together and do real journalism, with follow ups. Each reporter could ask the question again until there is an answer. Each lie could be confronted in real time.
What they choose to do, though, is the WORST of all the choices they could make. They run the entire "presser" live with no follow up and no challenges. They treat him deferentially and completely differently than they did Biden. What is the possible justification for this?
The sad fact is that there is only one justification. They are on board with the propaganda and helping to spread it because that's what their corporate owners want. It is their job, given to them by the framers of the Constitution, to help stop this. Their role is just as important as the Courts'. And they are failing because they want to.
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