Back at it Again: Fiery Katy Tur Misleads While Smearing Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro | July 7, 2017
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MSNBC’s Katy Tur had made a name for herself as the network’s faulty political historian with numerous moments where she misstated known history and common knowledge. She would also target President Trump with smears launched from her disdain for him. During Thursday’s MTP Daily, Tur was at it again as Trump was away in Poland and Hamburg, Germany for the G20 summit. “We turn now to the political drama out of Europe involving the President,” she chided at the start of the program.

She began her rundown of the “political drama” by seemingly alluding to Trump being lower than Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Take a guess at which one of them, today, was calling American press outlets fake news, while sowing doubts about the American intelligence on Russian hacking, and questioning President Obama's motives,” she mocked. “It may sound surreal, after all, this is an American president we're talking about, on the world stage, not Putin…”

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