A comment made by Donald Trump about Russia and Vladimir Putin during a White House talk on Thursday drew the attention of two MSNBC hosts on Friday morning which led them both to rip it apart.
Asked by a journalist if he could trust the Russian strongman, the president replied, "I think he'll keep his word. I've spoken to him, I've known him for a long time now, you know, we had we had to go through the Russian hoax together –– that was not a good thing. It's not fair, that was a rigged deal and had nothing to do with Russia. It was a rigged deal inside the country and they had to put up with that too. They put up with a lot."
Trump's return to talking about the "Russian hoax" led "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist to fact-check the president.
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"Before we get on to talk about Ukraine, we have to just pause right there and that statement was extraordinary," Geist stated. "The president of the United States saying he and Vladimir Putin went through the Russia hoax together, they were in this thing together that people were out to get them, when it was well documented whether you think the Trump campaign in 2016 sought the help or welcomed the help or not."
"It's not disputed that Russia put its thumb on the scale in that election, but he [Trump] sees a partner in that fight and a fellow victim," he added.
Co-host Joe Scarborough contributed, "Every single one of Donald Trump's intelligence select leaders that he selected, agency heads that he selected, believed, and it was the position of our government that Russia interfered in the 2016 election."
Continuing in that vein, he added, "But there is no hoax behind the central fact that Russia interfered in the election for the benefit of Donald Trump, whether he sought that help or not. Again, that's been a raging debate since 2017 but even Marco Rubio, when he was running the Senate Intelligence Committee, Marco Rubio and Republicans said that Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and actors in it, caused a direct counterintelligence threat to the United States of America's security."
"That's what Marco Rubio that's what the Republican Senate Intel Committee said and, again, not to belabor this point, but, you know, they're just some things that that that, you know, stop the presses, and this is one of them," he added.
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