'A clear violation': Gagged Trump posts FOX lie about criminal case jury pool

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Trump reposts a claim by a FOX host about the jury pool in his New York criminal trial. Also, Trump defends his $175m bond in his New York civil fraud case. And, Senate Democrats end the Republicans' push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Plus, Arizona Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake says her state's abortion ban is no big deal because "you can drive three hours that way." Andrew Weissmann, Adam Pollock, Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY), and Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) join Lawrence O'Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.
0:05.0	Good evening, Alex. We have Andrew Weisman joining us tonight and Adam Pollack, who used to work in the
0:09.4	Attorney General's office here in New York State, both have much to teach us about the status of
0:14.8	defendant Trump tonight. Candidate defendant, I'll be watching.
0:18.6	Exactly. Thank you, Alex. Thank you. Have a good show. Well we have breaking
0:22.3	news about defendant Trump at this hour.
0:24.8	He appears to have violated the judge's gag order on mentions and attacks of jurors in his case on Donald Trump's social media website tonight.
0:38.4	Donald Trump reposted something posted by the 8 p.m. host on Fox, Jesse Waters.
0:48.4	Jesse Waters says they are catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge in order to get on the
0:57.4	Trump jury.
0:58.6	And there's Donald Trump himself posting that on social media tonight, posting it for the jurors in
1:07.2	his case to see, calling them liberal activists and liars.
1:12.9	Donald Trump calling his jurors
1:15.8	who have already been seated liars.
1:18.0	Because what Jesse Waters is referring to there
1:22.1	are the jurors, the seven who have already been
1:25.5	officially seated on that jury. That's who he's referring to. And he's saying
1:31.6	that they have lied their way onto the jury
1:33.4	Donald Trump is endorsing that those words are the same as Donald Trump writing them
1:38.9	himself that was Donald Trump's choice to violate his gag order tonight, possibly in the very worst way.
1:47.2	In fact, definitely, in the worst way he has violated this gag order so far. This is a severe test now of what
1:57.6	Judge Juan Mershaun is prepared to do with Donald Trump violating the gag order in the worst possible way by
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