Brian Williams started his rehabilitation campaign on the Today Show Friday, apologizing and taking full responsibility for lying about previous events during his Nightly News broadcast. However, presidential candidate hopeful Donald Trump has some advice for him.
Williams told Matt Lauer he’s a changed person since his suspension. The lies “came from clearly a bad place, a bad urge inside me. This was clearly ego-driven, a desire to better my role in a story I was already in,” he explained.
Trump took to Twitter to tell him to move on and “stop apologizing” for what he did.
“Just watched Brian Williams on @TODAYshow - very sad!” he wrote. “Brian should get on with a new life and not start all over at @msnbc. Stop apologizing.”
In February, Williams started a six-month suspension without pay following revelations that his Iraq War story about being in a helicopter hit by an RPG was not accurate and more misleading statements started coming to light from there. Lester Holt will replace him on Nightly News and Williams is now demoted to MSNBC.
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