MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell mentioned Wednesday that President Donald Trump desires the information to deal with Jimmy Kimmel’s ousting at ABC. With no intention of constructing that want “come true,” he lined the president’s previous ties to late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein as an alternative.
“Donald Trump desires us to spend this hour speaking about Jimmy Kimmel,” the “Final Phrase” host mentioned throughout his monologue. “That’s what he desires, and he has had that want come true on most cable information tonight. He received’t have that want come true right here.”
O’Donnell continued, “We’re going to proceed to cowl what Donald Trump doesn’t need us to cowl. Donald Trump desires an hour of speak about Jimmy Kimmel as a result of he desires to point out off his energy to do what he did to Jimmy Kimmel. That’s what he desires.”
“Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” was suspended on Wednesday by ABC after Kimmel criticized the right-wing response to final week’s deadly capturing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. An ABC spokesperson advised HuffPost the present “shall be pre-empted indefinitely.”
O’Donnell lined the story on Wednesday, however spent most of his present on one other matter: what he referred to as Trump’s “political and ethical drawback of the 12 months.”
“In London final night time, Donald Trump was greeted with photos and movies of himself and Jeffrey Epstein and the fond birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein with what seems to be Donald Trump’s signature all projected onto Windsor Fortress,” he mentioned.
The president was welcomed by King Charles III on Tuesday for his second state go to to the U.Ok. O’Donnell famous the absence of Prince Andrew, who was stripped of his honorific titles after the late Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre accused him of raping her when she was a minor.
“Andrew is just not welcome at that desk now, the place Donald Trump is welcome,” O’Donnell mentioned. “And Jeffrey Epstein by no means mentioned that he was Andrew’s closest good friend, however … did say in a taped interview with Michael Wolff, ‘I used to be Donald’s closest good friend for 10 years.’”
“And so, the king of England has stupidly managed to ask his household’s piece of the Epstein scandal proper into his citadel tonight,” he added. “If Andrew was too near Jeffrey Epstein to not be allowed near the king, how can Donald Trump be sitting at that desk?”
Trump has tried to distance himself from Epstein, who died whereas awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking fees in 2019. His dying and ties to highly effective individuals have fueled theories that O’Donnell has beforehand mentioned Trump is determined to distract from.
The MSNBC host did, in fact, additionally delve into Kimmel’s suspension from ABC.
The transfer comes after Nexstar Media Group mentioned it might cease airing Kimmel’s present over considerations about his feedback. Nexstar is at present pursuing a significant merger with media firm Tegna and looking for approval from Trump’s Federal Communications Fee.
The “Late Present with Stephen Colbert” was notably canceled earlier this 12 months by CBS amid comparable plans of a merger. The company union between its father or mother firm, Paramount International, and Skydance Media, was authorised by the Trump administration in July.
Each hosts had spoken their minds about present points within the days earlier than their ousting.
“Richard Nixon by no means tried this,” O’Donnell mentioned Wednesday of Trump’s affect in silencing his outstanding critics. “Richard Nixon, essentially the most corrupt American president previous to Donald Trump, by no means tried to get Johnny Carson fired from ‘The Tonight Present’ for telling jokes about Richard Nixon.”
