MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell roasted “Trump Clown of the Day” United States particular envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff over an look on CNBC throughout which he stated one thing O’Donnell described as “stupid” and “deeply perverse.”
Witkoff appeared on Tuesday’s version of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, throughout which he said he would take Vladimir Putin and the Russians “at their word” that they weren’t serving to Iran goal U.S. forces.
On Tuesday evening’s edition of MS NOW’s The Last Word, O’Donnell tore into Witkoff and Trump over their professed belief in Putin:
O’DONNELL: Steve Witkoff clearly knew nothing in regards to the Middle East or Vladimir Putin when Donald Trump selected him. And now that he’s met Vladimir Putin, he nonetheless is aware of nothing about Vladimir Putin, as he demonstrated so embarrassingly at the moment when Carl Quintanilla at CNBC requested him why Donald Trump determined to permit Vladimir Putin to take full benefit of the explosive enhance within the value of oil and revenue off of that new value, a brand new value created by Donald Trump’s struggle.
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CARL QUINTANILLA, CNBC ANCHOR: Do we expect that the Russians have shared intelligence in regards to the location of U.S. navy property? And if they’ve, why would we be giving waivers on Russian oil sanctions?
STEVE WITKOFF, TRUMP ENVOY: Well, I’m not an intel officer, so I can’t let you know. I can let you know that yesterday on the decision with the president, the Russians stated that they haven’t been sharing. That’s what they stated. So, , we will — we will take them at their phrase, however they did say that.
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O’DONNELL: We can take them at their phrase. He stated that. Donald Trump’s clown of the day, Steve Witkoff, says we will take Vladimir Putin’s phrase for it that Russia has not been serving to Iran goal assaults on American navy personnel.
That is the one worst factor Vladimir Putin might presumably be doing to the United States on this struggle. And Vladimir Putin is aware of it. And Vladimir Putin additionally is aware of that Donald Trump has all the time behaved like Vladimir Putin’s skilled pet across the Russian dictator. Vladimir Putin is aware of that he has lied to Donald Trump to his face, and Donald Trump has then gone out to a microphone to inform the world, I consider Vladimir Putin.
After credible reporting by MS NOW, The New York Times and The Washington Post that Vladimir Putin was serving to Iran goal the American navy, which led to the deaths of seven American troopers and injuring 140 American troopers, all Vladimir Putin needed to do was inform Donald Trump on the cellphone yesterday that he didn’t do it. Donald Trump won’t really be so silly as to truly consider Vladimir Putin, but it surely doesn’t matter, as a result of Donald Trump is deeply perverse sufficient to publicly declare to consider Vladimir Putin. And so is Steve Witkoff.
Donald Trump’s breathtakingly incompetent actual property developer buddy Steve Witkoff does seem to truly be silly sufficient to consider Vladimir Putin and to say on tv that he believes Vladimir Putin.
Watch above through MS NOW’s The Last Word.
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