Trump ‘Trolled In Outright Misinformation and Lies’ In Response to New Orleans Attacks, Blasts MSNBC Host

MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire made clear to his viewers on Thursday morning that President-elect Donald Trump had “trolled in outright misinformation and lies on social media” the day before when he wrongly claimed the horrific terror attack in New Orleans was carried out by a migrant.

Lemire began his coverage by showing President Joe Biden’s reaction to the attack. “The president called the incident ‘despicable’ while vowing to keep the American people updated on the investigation,’ reported Lemire before playing a clip of Biden addressing the country:

I know I can speak for all Americans when I say our hearts are with the people of New Orleans. After a despicable attack that occurred in the early morning hours. To all the families of those who were killed, to all those who were injured. To all the people of New Orleans were grieving today. I want you to know I agree with you. Our nation grieves with you. We are going to stand with you as you mourn and as you heal in the weeks to come.

Lemire then turned to his guest, Sam Stein of The Bulwark, and said that Biden was “acting there is sort of comforter and chief.”

“But let’s talk about the response from President-elect Trump who trolled in outright misinformation and lies on social media yesterday, seizing upon an erroneous Fox News report that this truck had just come over the border thinking that it was perhaps some sort of migrant behind the wheel,” Lemire continued, adding:

So talk to us about just frankly, how irresponsible that is and fearmongering, but also the idea that this incident with a new focus on national security, may actually ease the path for some of his Cabinet nominations to get through.

Stein replied, “Yeah, I mean, the first reaction from President-Elect Trump was to blame this on a border crossing that turned out to be based on an erroneous report that had to do with the rental of this truck and it being corrected. But Trump’s post did not end up being corrected.”

“And then this morning or I guess late last night, he continued to hammer away at this idea that things are out of control at the border. Now’s the time for our tough policies to be implemented and so on and so forth. Look, I don’t want to excuse Trump and I’m not. This is what we now expect from him, right. This is the reaction that we have come to anticipate in these moments,” Stein continued, before answering the rest of Lemire’s question:

And it is what it is. He’s not president yet, but we know that from past, this is how he reacts. In terms of his nominees. I think ultimately for the national security state and by that I mean Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel at FBI.

You can see the case where our senators say he needs his team in quickly. And even though we might have some reservations about their views, their management experience, their past and personal lives, we need to push these nominations through. The one sort of caveat I would add is that when it comes to Kash Patel, it’s not obviously he’s a controversial nominee and so on, but he’s likely to not be considered right away. The reason for that is that the Judiciary Committee in the Senate will likely go with the attorney general nomination first, and they can’t do things simultaneously.

So what we should expect is that Pam Bondi’s consideration will happen before Kash Patel, which means that that might get pushed back to a couple of weeks potentially into February. So just just from a timing perspective, but I would I would make the case I would I would guess that Republicans who may be on the fence about some of these nominees will ultimately be persuaded to be supportive in light of what happened yesterday.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.