New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker joined Wednesday’s Chris Jansing Reports and unleashed, even by MSNBC’s standards, one of the most ridiculous reductio ad Putinum claims ever uttered on the network as he claimed the Russian dictator would “feel very comfortable” in Donald Trump’s America.
Jansing was specifically interested in the administration’s Smithsonian reforms and clearly had a preferred answer in mind when she asked, “Peter, the statement from the White House says, in part, that ‘the Smithsonian museums and exhibits should be accurate, patriotic, and enlightening, ensuring they remain places of learning, wonder, and national pride for generations to come.’ You've written about the president's war on facts. Is this another example? If what's accurate, patriotic, and enlightening is whatever the president says it is?”
Speaking of wars on facts, this is the same Peter Baker who tweeted on Monday that Trump was responding to a “nonexistent crime crisis” in federalizing Washington, D.C.’s law enforcement.
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