Thread by @PalmerReport

Why is MSNBC allowing Trump’s former lawyer to spew wall to wall bullshit about Jack Smith’s case with minimal pushback? This isn’t journalism. It’s not even entertainment. It’s the platforming of disinformation.

At one point Trump’s former lawyer suggested the recording of Trump isn’t conclusive because it’s possible Trump was lying about having the document. This is the kind of absurd reasonable doubt nonsense a defense attorney is supposed to come up with – but that’s why you don’t…

…put someone’s criminal defense attorney live on the air. If you’re a host and you know you’re not going to be able to shoot down more than a fraction of a guest’s bullshit in real time, you don’t book that guest live. It’s reckless.

At another point Trump’s former lawyer made the absurd claim (without evidence) that Jack Smith won’t be indicting Trump for January 6th and will instead only be indicting unspecified other people, yet received little pushback for this laugh out loud claim.

We’re really supposed to believe that Jack Smith went to the trouble of convincing the courts to waive executive privilege and force a former U.S. Vice President to testify to the grand jury, and it was all just to indict some peons? Come on, this doesn’t pass the laugh test.

But it’s why you don’t book a guest you know is going to spew nonstop bullshit. If it’s ten minute interview, even if you manage to shoot down 50% of it in real time, you’re still helping put a full five minutes of disinformation out there, live, to a million viewers.

And no, this wasn’t made okay by the fact that the host then put a legal expert on the air immediately afterward, to pick apart some of Trump’s former lawyer’s false claims. People change the channel.

So now a large chunk of MSNBC’s audience just came away with the fear that Jack Smith is going to let Trump off the hook for 1/6, simply because Trump’s former lawyer pulled that claim out of his ass and the MSNBC host failed to point out why it’s such an unrealistic claim.

But then this is the same MSNBC who spent the entire budget standoff misleading its audience into believing that a default was likely, and even spent the past few days misleading its audiences into believing the budget bill was in danger of not passing.

Just so much bullshit.

And yet MSNBC, which routinely shovels misleading and false information at its audience by the gallon, is orders of magnitude better than any of its counterparts like CNN or Fox News.

Which is pretty damn scary for the nation if you think about it.

What’s remarkable is that MSNBC, which routinely shovels false and misleading narratives at his audience by the gallon, is far better than its counterparts such as CNN or Fox News.

And that’s pretty damn scary for the public discourse when you think about it.