'Too stupid to know that was a lie': MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell shreds Trump's attack

Donald Trump's attack on MSNBC, in which the former president encourages the federal government to "come down hard" on the cable news network, has not gone unanswered.

Trump on Tuesday evening suggested MSNBC should be hit with government force for its "illegal political activity" in the course of reporting news related to the ex-president. Without citing which interview or report caught his attention, the former president took to social media to slam the news network and its CEO.

"MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Brian Robert’s, its Chairman and CEO, is a slimeball who has been able to get away with these constant attacks for years."

Now, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell is hitting back.

At the start of his show on Wednesday, O'Donnell took some time to correct falsehoods spread by Trump.

"Last night at 11:13 pm, 13 minutes after presumably watching this show, Donald Trump posted an attack not just on me this time, which he has done many times in the past, but on this entire network. Saying the government should come down hard on MSNBC," O'Donnell said. "And we know what Donald Trump means by come down hard. He means completely destroy, he means violently attack, attack the way he wanted Trump supporters to come down hard on congress on January 6th."