MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-hosts were befuddled Thursday as to why a false ad about President Donald Trump’s reaction to the novel coronavirus bothers the Trump campaign.
Co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski aired liberal super-PAC Priorities USA’s anti-Trump advertisement multiple times in a row as they tried to figure out why the Trump campaign was vexed.
The ad selectively edits the president’s statement about the novel coronavirus over the past few weeks and includes a debunked claim that Trump called the novel coronavirus a “hoax.” Trump’s edited words are playing as a graph shows the increased number of deaths from the virus in America.
“Okay, I’m looking at that ad, and I’m looking at these quotes that I got, I think, from a ‘New York Times’ article and a ‘Washington Post’ and ‘Wall Street journal’ articles about what the president said, and it sounds like all that ad’s doing is actually quoting him,” Scarborough said. “Maybe I missed something. Could you guys play that again? Maybe I missed something.”
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11.27.2024