There was an air of despair on MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday morning, as an anti-Trump panel expressed outrage about the President-elect’s various lawsuits against journalists and news organizations, but also despair that the liberal media establishment is failing to step up as leaders of the #Resistance, singling out ABC News for its $15 million settlement earlier this month.
“Donald Trump isn’t even in office yet, but his promises of retribution against the news media are already becoming a reality,” co-host Michael Steele warned at the top of the 9am ET hour.
Co-host Alicia Menendez casually labeled Trump a “tyrant” as she asked anti-Trump lawyer George Conway: “What kind of guardrails are there, constitutionally speaking, to prevent a tyrant like this from a retribution tour?”
After Conway noted that most libel and defamation lawsuits…
