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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Ali Velshi: Violence is who Donald Trump is. But he can be stopped.

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Versant, Government, Senate

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump has a long history of using violent rhetoric. Also, Jack Smith signals a willingness to ask the 11th Circuit to intervene in the Trump classified documents case. Plus, Trump Media loses billions as its stock price plunges. And President Biden is expected to speak with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday. Timothy Snyder, Neal Katyal, Joyce Vance, Sheelah Kolhatker, and David Rothkopf join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

Now it is time for the last word with Ali Velshi who is in for Lawrence good evening

0:03.4

absolutely amazing reporting thank you for highlighting that Alex you have a great evening you

0:07.7

too it was only a couple of weeks ago that Donald Trump supporters told us not to believe our lying ears when Donald Trump said this.

0:17.2

We're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line and you're not going to be able to sell those

0:24.2

guys if I get elected now if I don't get elected it's going to be a bloodbath

0:29.3

for the whole that's going to be the least of it it's going to be a bloodbath for the country that'll be the least of it. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country.

0:33.6

That'll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those cars.

0:38.4

Relax. He wasn't talking about a bloodbath, bloodbath. He was just talking about a bloodbath for the country

0:45.0

involving the auto industry. Trump's allies told us that. Political analysts told us that.

0:50.5

Heck, even some journalists told us that. Okay, so Trump was referring to cars yesterday, or was he in Michigan when he spoke at

0:58.6

an election bearing the words stop Biden's border bloodbath?

1:04.3

Who's during those remarks that Trump claimed he spoke with the family of a murder victim

1:08.5

named Ruby Garcia, a 25-year-old woman who was allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant.

1:15.0

Except he didn't.

1:16.7

He did not speak with any of us, Ruby's sister Marvy Garcia said in an interview, so

1:21.0

it's kind of shocking seeing that he had said he had spoken

1:23.7

with us misinforming people on live TV end quote. NBC news reports when asked to

1:29.4

confirm if Trump had indeed spoken with a member of Ruby Garcia's family, the Trump

1:35.0

campaign declined to comment on the record. Now this specific deception

1:40.0

feeds into the violent dehumanizing way that Trump uses the issue of immigration to try to terrorize

1:46.6

his way back to the Oval Office.

1:49.7

Trump wants you to believe that we live in a violent treacherous nation where his political rivals are vermin,

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