Lawrence O’Donnell didn’t hold back on The Last Word as he slammed CNN for allowing conservative commentator Scott Jennings “to lie about Donald Trump .”

The long-time MSNBC anchor took aim on Monday’s (October 27) show at Mark Thompson, the British–American media executive who has served as CNN’s CEO since 2023. O’Donnell called Thompson the “Trump-supporting owner and operator of CNN” who “thinks paying Scott Jennings to lie about Donald Trump is money very well spent.”

O’Donnell argued that Jennings “was not always a rabid, lying Trump supporter,” pointing to how he’d previously criticize some of the President’s more “extreme” positions. “[But he] figured out where the money is and how he could get his own podcast and decided to become the JD Vance of CNN,” the host added.

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