Rosie O'Donnell Calls Out 'Morning Joe' for Allowing Trump to Trash Her in 2007

Rosie O’Donnell called out “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist for giving Donald Trump a platform to attack her back in 2007.

During an appearance on MSNBC Monday night with anchor Ari Melber, the former daytime host accused MSNBC and the mainstream media of providing Trump a regular platform and not standing up to his falsehoods.

“All you have to do is look at the tapes from ‘Morning Joe’ from 2007,” said O’Donnell. “They had him on once a week and they all ganged up. Willie Geist was very anti-Rosie O’Donnell. So was Joe Scarborough, so was every reporter on Fox, and it went on and on.”

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O’Donnell said that Trump used the network to propagate the false rumor that her television show had been canceled when instead, the comedian said, she walked away from “a 100 million dollars” to be a parent.

“He changed the narrative and the factual truth about who I am to the public of America when I was not on TV every day to refute it,” she added. “Nobody would stand up to him and they would let him.”

Melber offered a lawyerly response.

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“You mentioned some of my colleagues who have their own TV shows so as my practice, I will let them respond how they want with their own TV shows,” he said.

Though O’Donnell has said she barely knows Trump, the feud between the two stretches back over a decade to their days as television hosts. In the first GOP primary debate, Trump joked that the only woman he ever called a “fat pig” or “disgusting animal” was O’Donnell, which was met by wide audience applause.

O’Donnell told Melber on set that the president was too mentally unstable for office.

“He’s a horrible, horrible human with no soul and he has a very serious mental disorder,” she said. “This guy is in no means mentally stable enough to run this country and he should be impeached.”

Reps for MSNBC and “Morning Joe” did not immediately respond to request for comment.

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Mike Cernovich, a Timeline: From Choking Advice to Pizzagate to Firings (Photos)

Maybe you'd never heard of right-wing provocateur Mike Cernovich before last week, when he helped get James Gunn fired from the next "Guardians of the Galaxy" film by highlighting Gunn's old Twitter jokes about rape and pedophilia. But Cernovich himself has a long history online, filled with both successes and statements he has since distanced himself from -- for reasons that will be obvious.
Advice on Choking Women

Before gaining fame as a Trump superfan, Cernovich got his start in the men's rights and pick-up artist community. His advice column, published on his blog "Danger and Play," included suggestions on the proper way to "choke" women during sex. This entry from December 2011 has since been deleted: "Choking works because it’s a show of dominance. Women only want to have consensual sex with men they know could rape them."
Pizzagate

Cernovich first came to wide public attention over his promotion of a conspiracy theory during the 2016 election that suggested that a pedophile ring was being run out of the basement of a Washington, D.C. pizzeria. The story was bunk, and Cernovich has moved to distance himself from Pizzagate.
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John Conyers

Cernovich's biggest score of all probably wasn't James Gunn, but John Conyers. A tip provided by Cernovich to BuzzFeed about accusations of sexual misconduct forced the Democrat to resign his seat in disgrace in December 2017.
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Sam Seder

Mike Cernovich targeted the MSNBC contributor over a years-old joke about his daughter being raped. MSNBC dropped Seder in December 2017, but reinstated him after a public backlash.
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Sopan Deb

Cernovich went after New York Times reporter Sopan Deb in March 2017 over a tweeted pun about the rapper Bow Wow. The incident earned Deb an official rebuke from the Times' then-public editor, Liz Spayd.
Josh Barro

In November 2017, Cernovich demanded an apology from Josh Barro after the Business Insider Senior Editor made fun of his lisp. Barro swiftly retreated.
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Perry Fein

In June 2018, Los Angeles Times freelancer Perry Fein slipped into Cernovich's DMs and wished harm upon him. His relationship with the newspaper was over just hours later.
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James Gunn

Last week, Cernovich helped lead an online campaign highlighting old tweets in which Gunn joked about rape about pedophilia. Gunn offered an apology, but was dropped by Disney from the "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise.
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Cheri Jacobus

Before the James Gunn situation, Cernovich also led a brief and successful campaign to pressure USA Today to drop columnist Cheri Jacobus. The decision from the paper came after Jacobus' bizarre comments about convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Michael Ian Black

Cernovich has trained his fire on comedian Michael Ian Black, who has said several times on Twitter that his tweets about pedophilia were only jokes.
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Dan Harmon

Fresh off his victory in ousting Gunn from "Guardians of the Galaxy," Cernovich forced "Rick and Morty" co-creator Dan Harmon and his employers at Adult Swim to apologize over an old sketch that featured Harmon graphically simulating the rape of a baby. (The sketch used a doll, not an actual baby.)
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The right-wing provocateur has become a thorn to liberals online

Maybe you'd never heard of right-wing provocateur Mike Cernovich before last week, when he helped get James Gunn fired from the next "Guardians of the Galaxy" film by highlighting Gunn's old Twitter jokes about rape and pedophilia. But Cernovich himself has a long history online, filled with both successes and statements he has since distanced himself from -- for reasons that will be obvious.

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Mike Cernovich, a Timeline: From Choking Advice to Pizzagate to Firings (Photos)

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