Lawrence: The public knows Trump is lying about tariffs. Why doesn’t the White House press corps?

Lawrence: The public knows Trump is lying about tariffs. Why doesn’t the White House press corps?

>> ABSOLUTELY. >> THANKS, JEN. >> THANKS, LAUREN. >> THANK YOU. WELL, THE POSSIBILITY OF A. RELENTLESSLY STUPID PERSON BECOMING. >> PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED. >> STATES HAS. >> BEEN UNDEREXPLORED. BY SCREENWRITERS. >> AND THEN DONALD TRUMP. >> CAME. >> ALONG AND WENT FAR. >> BEYOND WHAT HOLLYWOOD EVER IMAGINED IN THE PRESIDENCY PRIOR TO DONALD TRUMP, THE CHALLENGE. >> FOR SCREENWRITERS. >> AND FICTION WRITERS WOULD HAVE. >> BEEN, FIRST OF ALL. >> HOW COULD. >> A PROFOUNDLY STUPID PERSON BE. ELECTED PRESIDENT OF. THE UNITED STATES? AND THEN. >> HOW COULD A PROFOUNDLY STUPID PERSON GET THROUGH A. >> DAY ON. >> THE JOB AS PRESIDENT? THE FICTIONAL PRESIDENT, PLAYED BRILLIANTLY BY. MARTIN SHEEN ON NBC’S EMMY WINNING SERIES THE WEST WING, WAS A WISE AND CAREFULLY THOUGHTFUL PRESIDENT FOR. >> WHOM. I WROTE. >> SEVERAL EPISODE SCRIPTS OVER SEVEN YEARS OF THAT SERIES. AND IF I WERE WRITING THE CHARACTER OF A. >> STUPID PRESIDENT. >> IN A. >> SCRIPT. >> I WOULD SIMPLY HAVE HAD THE STUPID PRESIDENT COMPLETELY RELY ON A SMART WHITE HOUSE STAFF AND A SMART CABINET AND JUST HIDE BEHIND THOSE PEOPLE. AND ABSOLUTELY. AND I MEAN ABSOLUTELY NEVER TALK TO THE PRESS BECAUSE A STUPID PRESIDENT’S STUPIDITY WOULD BE IMMEDIATELY EXPOSED BY THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS. >> AND ON THAT POINT. >> I WOULD HAVE. >> BEEN VERY. >> WRONG. BECAUSE IT. TURNS OUT, THE STUPIDEST PRESIDENCY IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAS THE STUPIDEST WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, AS. >> FAR. >> AS WE CAN TELL. AND THE PRESS CORPS. >> HAVE. >> BECOME ACCESSORIES, AS THEY PROVED AGAIN TODAY. NO ONE COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT IF WE GET THE STUPIDEST PRESIDENT HISTORY, WE WOULD ALSO GET THE STUPIDEST WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS COLLECTIVELY IN HISTORY. BUT THAT IS WHERE WE ARE. SOME INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS, AND I WANT TO STRESS THIS. REMAIN EXCELLENT AT THEIR JOBS, BUT THEY FREQUENTLY DON’T GET TO. >> ASK DONALD. >> TRUMP A QUESTION IN THE ELBOW TO ELBOW QUESTION COMPETITION THAT OCCURS WHEN DONALD TRUMP INVITES THEM INTO. >> THE OVAL OFFICE. >> OR, AS IT WAS TODAY IN THE CABINET ROOM. AND IT WAS THE. >> FIRST TIME. >> THE TRUMP CABINET HAS MET SINCE ELON MUSK LEFT HIS POSITION. THAT WASN’T ACTUALLY A CABINET POSITION, BUT THAT. >> GRANTED HIM A SEAT. >> AT THE TABLE IN TRUMP CABINET MEETINGS. ABSURDLY, WHICH THOSE TRUMP CABINET MEETINGS HAVE CONSISTENTLY BEEN. >> THE MOST RIDICULOUS. >> CABINET MEETINGS IN THE HISTORY OF THE CABINET. TODAY. DONALD TRUMP’S ACCESSORIES. >> WERE ALLOWED INTO. >> THE ROOM TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS. THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS HAD BECOME ACCESSORIES IN MORE THAN. ONE SENSE. THERE IS THE CRIMINAL LAW CONCEPT OF ACCESSORIES, AND THERE IS THE FASHION NOTION OF ACCESSORIES. >> DONALD TRUMP’S TURNS. >> WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS INTO BOTH VERSIONS OF THAT WORD ACCESSORIES. HE TREATS THEM LIKE HANDBAGS OR CUFFLINKS. ORNAMENTS THAT HE FLASHES AROUND TO PRETEND, AND ONLY PRETEND THAT HE IS OPENLY COMMUNICATING. ABOUT WHAT HE IS DOING IN HIS. >> WORKDAY WHEN. >> HE NEVER. >> REALLY ANSWERS QUESTIONS. >> AND SO THAT IS NEVER TRUE. >> AND DONALD TRUMP. >> USES THE PRESS CORPS AS ACCESSORIES BEFORE AND AFTER THE FACT OF HIS LIES. DONALD TRUMP USES. WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS TO EVADE QUESTIONS ASKED BY OTHER WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS. HE PLAYS THEM. >> FOR CLOWNS. >> AND THEY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO RESIST IT. AND I HAVE TO ADMIT, IF I WERE IN THE. >> WHITE HOUSE PRESS. >> CORPS, I’M NOT SURE I WOULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO RESIST IT, EXCEPT. TO MAYBE. >> YELL OUT SOME QUESTION ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. >> LYING ABOUT. >> SOMETHING. >> AND THEN I WOULDN’T BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. >> PRESS CORPS ANYMORE. >> I WOULD BE SHOWN OUT THE DOOR AND THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THAT. THERE WAS A MOMENT. >> IN DONALD TRUMP’S. PLAYING WITH THE. >> PRESS TODAY THAT. SHOWS EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE. IT SHOWS. DONALD TRUMP’S COLOSSAL STUPIDITY IN AN EXCHANGE THAT HE THINKS SHOWS HOW CLEVER HE IS. IMAGINE HOW STUPID YOU HAVE TO BE AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THINK THAT WHEN ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT SOMETHING IMPORTANT THAT YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO KNOW, YOUR ANSWER IS, I. >> DON’T KNOW. >> WHY DON’T. YOU TELL ME? THERE HAVE BEEN PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN ASKED QUESTIONS THAT THEY DIDN’T KNOW, THE ANSWER TO, WHICH THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THE ANSWER TO, AND NOT ONE OF THEM SAID, I DON’T. >> KNOW. >> WHY DON’T YOU TELL ME? BECAUSE NONE OF THEM ARE AS STUPID AS DONALD TRUMP. ONLY DONALD TRUMP COULD DO THAT. >> AND ONLY DONALD. >> TRUMP HAS BEEN. >> ABLE TO BEAT. >> DOWN AND. >> HUMILIATE WHITE. >> HOUSE REPORTERS TO THE POINT WHERE THEY TAKE THAT FOR AN ANSWER. MEEKLY AND SHUT UP. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TODAY WHEN THAT WHITE HOUSE REPORTER TOOK THAT ANSWER, MEEKLY TRIED TO MUMBLE A FOLLOW UP. ANOTHER WHITE HOUSE REPORTER BESIDE. >> HER. >> IMMEDIATELY JUMPED IN. PERFORMING. >> PERFORMING HIS ROLE AS AN ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT. >> OF DONALD. >> TRUMP’S STUPIDITY TO. >> OFFER DONALD TRUMP. >> A COMPLETE CHANGE OF SUBJECT. A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT QUESTION. TO RUN AWAY FROM THE QUESTION TO WHICH IS IDIOTIC ANSWER WAS I DON’T KNOW. >> WHY DON’T YOU TELL ME? >> AND THE REPORTER WHO HE ASKED, WHY DON’T YOU TELL ME? >> BEGAN TO FOLLOW UP. >> BUT THE OTHER WHITE HOUSE REPORTER CAME IN TO RESCUE DONALD TRUMP. AND ALL OF THAT. >> HAPPENS IN. >> ONE FLASH IN THE CABINET ROOM TODAY. AND NOT A SINGLE WHITE HOUSE REPORTER IS OUTRAGED. NOT A SINGLE WHITE HOUSE REPORTER RAISED A VOICE. AND THE WHITE HOUSE REPORTER. >> WHO GOT DONALD TRUMP. >> TO SAY, I DON’T KNOW, WHY DON’T YOU TELL ME IS THE VERY SAME. >> WHITE. HOUSE REPORTER WHO. WAS ALWAYS CONGRATULATED FOR BEING. >> VERY AGGRESSIVE, AND THAT’S THE TERM THEY’RE ALWAYS PROUD OF, VERY. AGGRESSIVE WITH PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. SHE NEVER WOULD HAVE ALLOWED JOE BIDEN TO SAY TO HER, WHY DON’T YOU. TELL ME WITHOUT AN A, AN AGGRESSIVE AND VERY LOUD RESPONSE TO THAT, A RAISED VOICE, AGGRESSIVE RESPONSE TO THAT. BUT IT’S DONALD TRUMP NOW. SO THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS HAS. >> CHANGED ITS OWN RULES. >> OF BEHAVIOR IN ORDER TO CONTINUE TO BE ALLOWED IN THE. >> TRUMP WHITE HOUSE. >> THEY’RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THEIR JOBS IN THE. TRUMP WHITE HOUSE, BUT THEY ARE ALLOWED TO BE THERE, WHICH APPARENTLY IS ALL THAT MATTERS TO MOST OF. THEM WHO HAVE EXHIBITED NO SHAME WHATSOEVER IN THE DIMINUTION OF THEIR STATUS, THEIR. REDUCTION TO. ACCESSORIES BY. >> DONALD TRUMP. >> HERE IS THAT MOMENT WHEN EVERYTHING. >> ALL AT ONCE. >> HAPPENED TODAY. >> PUTIN IS NOT HE’S NOT TREATING HUMAN BEINGS RIGHT. HE’S KILLING TOO MANY PEOPLE. SO WE’RE SENDING SOME DEFENSIVE WEAPONS TO UKRAINE, AND I’VE APPROVED THAT. >> SO WHO ORDERED THE PAUSE. >> LAST WEEK? >> I DON’T KNOW, WHAT DID YOU TELL ME? >> THAT’S A. >> QUESTION FOR THE GO. >> AHEAD ON IMMIGRATION. THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE DID SAY THIS MORNING THAT UNDOCUMENTED. >> WORKERS WOULD. >> NOT BE COVERED BY ANY AMNESTY. >> OF WHO. >> WORKING ON FARMS. >> AND WE WERE. >> OFF TO IMMIGRATION. >> DONALD TRUMP OBVIOUSLY THOUGHT HE WAS BEING VERY CLEVER WITH THE WHY DON’T YOU TELL ME WISE GUY QUESTION. THERE IS NOT ANOTHER PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY WHO WOULD THINK THERE WAS ANYTHING CLEVER ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE THERE ISN’T. IT WAS A CONFIDENT VERSION OF DONALD TRUMP’S RANK STUPIDITY. WHY DON’T YOU TELL ME, DONALD TRUMP THINKING HE’S SHOWING HOW TOUGH AND DEFIANT HE IS OF REPORTERS WITH THAT RESPONSE, WHO ORDERED THE PAUSE OF WEAPONS SHIPMENTS TO UKRAINE LAST WEEK WAS ACTUALLY THE BEST QUESTION ASKED IN THE CABINET ROOM TODAY, AND IT FIGURED INTO CNN REPORTING TONIGHT ABOUT THE PAUSED ARMS SHIPMENT. >> CNN REPORTS. >> SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH DID NOT INFORM. >> THE WHITE. >> HOUSE BEFORE HE AUTHORIZED A PAUSE ON. WEAPONS SHIPMENTS TO UKRAINE LAST WEEK, ACCORDING TO FIVE SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER, SETTING OFF A SCRAMBLE INSIDE THE ADMINISTRATION TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE HALT WAS IMPLEMENTED AND EXPLAIN IT TO CONGRESS AND THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SUGGESTED ON TUESDAY THAT HE WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MOVE. ASKED ON TUESDAY DURING A CABINET MEETING WHETHER HE APPROVED OF THE PAUSE IN SHIPMENTS, TRUMP DEMURRED, SAYING ONLY THAT THE US WOULD CONTINUE TO SEND DEFENSIVE WEAPONS TO UKRAINE. PRESSED AGAIN ON WHO AUTHORIZED THE PAUSE, TRUMP REPLIED, I DON’T KNOW. WHY DON’T YOU TELL ME? TWO OF THE SOURCES ATTRIBUTED TO HEGSETH NOT INFORMING THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE FACT THAT HE HAS NO CHIEF OF STAFF OR TRUSTED ADVISERS AROUND HIM THAT MIGHT URGE HIM TO COORDINATE MAJOR POLICY DECISIONS BETTER WITH INTERAGENCY PARTNERS, NOT ANOTHER QUESTION IN THE CABINET ROOM BY MEMBERS OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS TODAY WAS WORTH ASKING, AND SOME OF THE QUESTIONS CAME FROM THE TRUMP WORSHIPING REPORTERS WHO HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS BY. >> DONALD TRUMP. >> AND SO THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF A WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY DONALD TRUMP. EVEN BEFORE THE NONCORRUPT, MEMBERS OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS HAVE DECIDED TO USE THEIR TALKING TO PETS VOICES INSTEAD OF THE SCREAMING LEVEL THAT THEY COULD REACH AT JOE BIDEN DIRECTLY AND AT HIS WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY. AND SO THAT IS HOWUT THE PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAITS, HE’S DECIDED TO PUT. >> ON THE. >> WALL OF THAT ROOM ONCE AGAIN. TODAY, THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS PLAYED THE ROLES OF PERFECT ACCESSORIES TO DONALD TRUMP’S LIES ABOUT TARIFFS. NOTHING, AND I MEAN NOTHING HAS ENABLED DONALD TRUMP’S LIES ABOUT TARIFFS MORE THAN THEY NOW OVERWHELMING, STULTIFYING IGNORANCE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS THAT THEY DISPLAY DAY IN AND DAY OUT. EVERY TIME DONALD TRUMP SAYS THE WORD TARIFF IN FRONT OF THEM. EARLY IN THE DISCUSSION WITH THE PRESS TODAY, DONALD TRUMP SAID THE. >> TARIFFS. >> AS YOU KNOW, ARE STARTING TO COME IN AT RECORD LEVELS. TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF MONEY ARE COMING INTO OUR COUNTRY. HE SAID THAT, AND NOT ONE WHITE HOUSE REPORTER SAID ZERO MONEY IS COMING INTO THE COUNTRY FROM TARIFFS. NOT ONE WHITE HOUSE REPORTER CHOSE TODAY AS THE DAY TO DEMONSTRATE THAT AT LEAST THAT ONE REPORTER KNOWS THAT THE MONEY DONALD TRUMP IS TALKING ABOUT COMING INTO OUR COUNTRY IS ALREADY HERE. IT IS IN YOUR WALLET, IT IS IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. IT IS IN THE BANK ACCOUNTS OF AMERICAN COMPANIES THAT ARE GOING TO PAY THE TARIFFS IN AMERICAN DOLLARS IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH IS THE ONLY PLACE THE TARIFFS CAN BE PAID. AND THOSE COMPANIES ARE GOING TO PASS ON THE COST OF THOSE TARIFFS TO YOU IN INCREASED PRICES OF THE PRODUCTS THAT HAVE BEEN DELIVERED FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES, PRODUCTS THAT YOU NEED, AND A PRODUCT THAT IS GOING TO COST YOU MORE MONEY BECAUSE OF DONALD TRUMP’S TARIFFS. AND SO NO TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF MONEY ARE NOT COMING INTO OUR COUNTRY. FROM TARIFFS AND NEVER WILL. >> COME INTO OUR COUNTRY FROM. >> TARIFFS AND HAVE. >> NEVER COME. >> INTO OUR COUNTRY FROM TARIFFS, BECAUSE THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE. AND NO WHITE HOUSE REPORTER SEEMS TO KNOW THAT. AND THE ENTIRE CREW OF WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS IS STAINED NOW BY THE DISGRACE OF WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS FAILING TO POINT OUT THAT EVERY TIME DONALD TRUMP TELLS THAT LIE THAT IT IS A LIE, AND FAILING TO ASK HIM WHY HE’S TELLING THAT LIE, FAILING TO ASK HIM WHY HE CANNOT ADMIT THAT TARIFFS IMPOSED BY. >> DONALD TRUMP. >> ARE PAID ONLY, ONLY BY PEOPLE IN AMERICA WITH AMERICAN DOLLARS AT THE PORT OF ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES, THAT NO FOREIGN COUNTRY HAS EVER PAID ONE PENNY OF A TARIFF TO THE UNITED STATES AND NEVER WILL. AND IT CAN NEVER BE THAT WAY, NEVER HAS BEEN AND NEVER WILL WORK THAT WAY. NO TARIFF HAS EVER WORKED THAT WAY. WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS DOESN’T KNOW THAT, AT LEAST ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY SAY WHEN THEY’RE GIVEN A CHANCE. NOT ONE OF THEM KNOWS THAT. TOWARD THE END OF DONALD TRUMP’S DISCUSSION WITH REPORTERS, DONALD TRUMP GAVE THEM A HISTORY LESSON DURING WHICH, BY THEIR SILENCE, THEY DECLINED TO REVEAL IF A SINGLE ONE OF THEM KNOWS JUST HOW MUCH DEMENTIA IT TAKES TO THINK THAT THIS TRUMP STORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY. AND THIS IS WHAT DONALD TRUMP ACTUALLY SAID. HE SAID THESE WORDS, THEY TRIED TO BRING BACK TARIFFS, BUT THE WHOLE THING. >> WAS. >> YOU KNOW, THIS WAS AFTER THE DEPRESSION. THAT WAS ONE OF THE GREAT MISCONCEPTIONS IS PEOPLE LIKE TO SAY, OH, BUT IT WAS DURING THE NO. THE WE WENT THE COUNTRY HAD A GREAT DEPRESSION. AND THEN AFTER THE DEPRESSION, LONG AFTER IT STARTED, THEY BROUGHT BACK TARIFFS TO SEE IF THEY COULD SAVE IT. NO OBJECTION TO THAT FROM WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS. NO OBJECTIONS AT ALL. THAT JUST SAILED RIGHT THROUGH, SAILED RIGHT BY THEM. VIEWERS OF THIS PROGRAM KNOW THAT THE SMOOT-HAWLEY TARIFFS WERE WRITTEN BY THE REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE, AND THE REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE, BOTH OF WHICH COMMITTEES HAVE JURISDICTION OVER TARIFFS. AND THEY GOT THE TARIFFS IN EFFECT BY HISTORY NAMED AFTER THEMSELVES, SENATOR REED SMOOT AND CONGRESSMAN WILLIS HAWLEY. THEY WERE SIGNED INTO LAW BY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER IN 1930, AND THEY CAUSED AND ACCELERATED PROFOUNDLY THE GREAT DEPRESSION. THE TARIFFS CAME BEFORE THE WORST OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AND THEY WORSENED THE GREAT DEPRESSION. AND THEY WERE DONE AND PUT INTO LAW ENTIRELY BY REPUBLICANS AND JOE BIDEN ON HIS SICKEST DAY IN THE PRESIDENCY, WHEN HE HAD COVID AND HE COULD BARELY SPEAK, COULD NEVER HAVE SAID ANYTHING AS UTTERLY IGNORANT OF HISTORY AS THAT LUNACY. DONALD TRUMP SPOKE TO THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS ABOUT TARIFFS COMING AFTER THE GREAT DEPRESSION. BUT DONALD TRUMP CAN DO IT. AND THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS SAYS NOTHING BECAUSE THEY APPARENTLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF TARIFFS OR THE GREAT DEPRESSION. AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE. THE SHAME OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN PRESS CORPS IS THEIR DISGRACEFUL FAILURE TO BE ABLE TO CONFRONT DONALD TRUMP ABOUT HIS LIES, ABOUT WHO PAYS THE TRUMP TARIFFS. THAT IS THE SIMPLEST LIE DONALD TRUMP TELLS ABOUT TARIFFS, WHICH HAS BECOME A HUGE SUBJECT IN HIS PRESIDENCY THAT NO WHITE HOUSE PRESS REPORTER IS APPARENTLY CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING. AND DONALD TRUMP HAS NEVER BEEN CONFRONTED ON THAT LIE BY THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS. IF AN INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS DOES UNDERSTAND ALL OF THIS ABOUT TARIFFS AND HAS BEEN UNFAIRLY BLOCKED BY THE TRUMP PEOPLE OR COLLEAGUES IN THE ROOM, FROM BEING ABLE TO ASK THAT QUESTION, I HEREBY APOLOGIZE TO THAT UNKNOWN REPORTER FOR LUMPING THAT REPORTER IN WITH THE GENUINELY DISGRACEFUL JOB THAT THE LARGER GROUP HAS DONE IN THEIR COMPLETE FAILURE TO PENETRATE THAT VERY SIMPLE LIE. BUT THE PUBLIC KNOWS THE PUBLIC KNOWS MUCH BETTER THAN THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS THAT DONALD TRUMP IS LYING ABOUT WHO PAYS THE TARIFFS ON THIS. THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, MUCH, MUCH SMARTER THAN YOUR AVERAGE WHITE HOUSE REPORTER. A NEW POLL SHOWS 81% OF AMERICANS ARE VERY CONCERNED OR SOMEWHAT CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF TARIFFS ON THEIR. >> PERSONAL FINANCES. >> AND I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT THAT 81% OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS DO NOT KNOW HOW TARIFFS WORK, AND NOT ONE OF THOSE 81% OF THE PUBLIC WHO DO KNOW. WHO ARE COMPLETELY CORRECT IN THEIR CONCERN HAVE HAD ANY TRUMP AT ALL, ANY HELP AT ALL IN COMPREHENDING THE TRUMP TARIFFS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF DONALD TRUMP TURNED ON A WHITE HOUSE PRESS REPORTER AND SAID, WHY DON’T YOU TELL ME ABOUT TARIFFS? WOULD THEY ALL BE SPEECHLESS? OR WOULD DONALD TRUMP’S

The American public knows Donald Trump is lying about tariffs. And as MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains, they’ve figured it out without any help from the White House press corps who continue to accept his lies as answers.

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