MSNBC host Chris Hayes ripped into President Trump, saying his “lies” regarding the coronavirus were making him “dangerous.”
“In the midst of this global pandemic, at this moment of crisis, the president, as he has been doing daily, as he has done since the first case arrived on our shores, went out today and said things that that are flat-out wrong, that are lies and, more than that, that are dangerous,” Hayes said Tuesday night on his show. “That’s why we did not play you any sound of what he said today because, frankly, the president has become a kind of — well, he’s a genuine threat to public health, his rhetoric at this point, the things he says.”
Earlier on Tuesday, MSNBC issued an apology for a statement Hayes made about the lethality of the coronavirus.
He claimed on Twitter that the virus could kill half the U.S. population. “There is no option to just let everyone go back out and go back to normal if a pandemic rages across the country and kills 50% of the population,” he said.
MSNBC called the statement by the host “an editing error.”
