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MSNBC’s faulty political historian, Katy Tur filled in for Chuck Todd during MTP Daily on Monday, where she dedicated a significant portion of the show railing against President Trump and claiming he was untrustworthy. “I'm in the chair for @MeetThePress Daily. Tonight we're focusing on trust. Do Americans have it for Trump? Does Trump have it for his NSC,” she announced in a tweet before the show.
During her opening monologue, she glorified a smear of Trump from the Associated Press. “The Associated Press had a brutal lead in their piece fact-checking the President,” she hyped as she began to read the AP article. “’President Donald Trump can't be counted on to give accurate information to Americans when violent acts are unfolding abroad.’” “So what happens if there I an attack here at home,” she then wondered aloud.
As Tur was bringing on the first guest of the night, Juan Zarate, President George W. Bush’s Deputy National Security Adviser, she told him: “I really do want to focus on the issue of trust. And that AP lead really got down to it.”.
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