“We are here to bring you the news,” Maddow claimed in June, as Trump was addressing his first federal indictment. “It hurts our ability to do that if we live-broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations—no matter who says them.”

But Maddow’s suggestion that MSNBC eschews falsehoods is itself untrue. She and her network have repeatedly broadcast lies and false accusations as news, in many cases about Trump.

[I note that they never apply that standard to Joe Biden, who has spent his entire life plagiarizing others, spinning fabulist fantasies about his alleged heroic actions, and repeatedly lying when it would be easier to tell the truth. I’m not saying Trump doesn’t lie, but how is Joe Biden any better? — Ed]