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'It's wrong what's happening over there': MSNBC's Mika shreds Fox News for 'spewing hatred and lies'
November 30, 2021
MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski went on a rampage against Donald Trump voters and then turned her attention to Fox News.
The conservative network's Lara Logan compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, and the "Morning Joe" co-host blasted Fox News as dangerous propaganda.
"This is as bad as it gets," Brzezinski said. "Making parallels between Dr. Fauci and Dr. Mengele. That's a news organization. I want to know who the news director is who thinks that they are news director for a news organization, when they're literally spewing hatred and lies over the airwaves, and feeding their many viewers that they have -- America loves to watch Fox News -- but it's not news. It's lies and hatred, and people trying to get attention by using the Trump way of lying. Twisted, sick you-know-what."
"It seems silly to be lifting up [Rep.] Lauren Boebert and [Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene and even talking about these weak, pathetic people who are bending to the easiest, lowest-hanging fruit in Trumpworld," she added. "I mean, they're floating around the very bottom and feeding off of it, and it's kind of sad what they're doing to our country. It's upsetting ... it's wrong what's happening over there."
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Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston has calculated how much money flowed through Donald Trump's businesses while serving as president — and has reached a startling total figure.
CNN's Brianna Keilar interviewed Johnston about his new book, The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family.
"A new book is pulling back the curtain on how much former President Trump enriched himself and his family while he was in office, finding that nearly $1.7 billion in revenue flowed through him and his organizations during his four years as commander-in-chief," Keilar reported.
She described the book as "the most complete picture we've seen of this."
"Tell us how much Donald Trump profited — and how you were able to get to this number," Keilar asked.
"Well, Donald Trump had to disclose his finances as president, all top federal officials do," Johnston replied. "Now, several of them filed very incomplete and misleading forms. Donald, in fact, asked through his lawyers if he could file financial disclosures without signing under penalty of perjury. He was told, no, you have to sign under penalty of perjury."
He explained that of the more than $1.7 billion in question, much of it came from taxpayers.
"Donald did everything he could to make sure the taxpayers were putting money into his businesses," he noted. "Hundreds of millions of dollars."
In addition to his business interests making money, Trump has also received large amounts of donations.
"You know, you also talk about it, just before the 2020 election and on his way out the door with stop the steal fundraising, he rakes in $500 million," Keilar noted. "He spends less than $9 million on lawyers, the rest of that money, he can use how?"
"Oh, he can spend it on himself," Johnston replied.
"I expect that once he is indicted in Manhattan and perhaps other jurisdictions, a lot of that money will go to criminal defense lawyers," he explained.
"Really fascinating," Keilar said.
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‘Well to put it in full context, Peter’: Jen Psaki kicks off week smacking down Doocy with truth cocktail
November 30, 2021
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki kicked the week off with a Monday briefing and wasted no time correcting Fox News' Peter Doocy, who had used a wholly out-of-context question to falsely attack President Joe Biden.
"Before Joe Biden was president he said the COVID travel restrictions on foreign countries were 'hysterical,' 'xenophobia' and 'fear mongering.' So what changed?" Doocy demanded.
"Well, I would say first to put in full context, Peter, what the President was critical of was the way that the former President put out, I believe, a xenophobic tweet, and had and how he, what he called the coronavirus, and who he directed it at. The President has not been critical of travel restrictions. We have put those in place ourselves. We put them in place ourselves in the spring, but no he does not believe – he believes we should follow the advice of health and medical experts. That's exactly what he did, and putting in place these restrictions over the weekend."
In fact, as Politifact noted in March of 2020, "Biden has not directly said that the restrictions were xenophobic."
"Around the time the Trump administration announced the travel restriction, Biden said that Trump had a 'record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering,'" Politifact added. He did not call travel restrictions "hysterical," "xenophobia," or "fear mongering."
Here's that Biden tweet from Feb. 2020:
We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 1, 2020
Politifact added that "Biden used the phrase 'xenophobic' in reply to a Trump tweet about limiting entry to travelers from China and in which Trump described the coronavirus as the 'Chinese virus.'"
Here's that tweet, from March 2020:
Stop the xenophobic fear-mongering. Be honest. Take responsibility. Do your job. https://t.co/nQ5aLVrpyb
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 18, 2020
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WH Press Sec. Psaki responds to Fox News’ Peter Doocy’s bad-faith question about travel restrictions: “What the president was critical of was the way that the former president put out, I believe, a xenophobic tweet, and what he called the coronavirus and who he directed it at.” pic.twitter.com/O86c8GuaEg
— The Recount (@therecount) November 29, 2021
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