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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: $83M to Carroll could start Trump's 'collapse into bankruptcy'

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

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump is ordered to pay $83M to E. Jean Carroll. Andrew Weissmann, Faith Gay, Lisa Birnbach, and Jen Psaki join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Well, E. Jean Carroll has sent Donald Trump on his way to bankruptcy with the $90 million that he now owes E. Jean Carroll as of tonight.

0:10.6

That's $83.3 million in a jury return for E. Jean Carroll on

0:15.2

Friday added to the 5.6 million dollars that a jury return for E. Jean Carroll in

0:21.0

the same courtroom last year and with interest running on

0:24.4

both of those judgments. Interest. Remember the interest that everyone else has

0:29.6

forgotten about. Donald Trump is already around 90 million dollars in debt to E. Jean Carroll.

0:36.4

And that debt increases every single day that it is not paid because of the interest added by law to that amount every day

0:47.9

that it remains unpaid. And that could be the smallest debt that Donald Trump owes after a New York

0:57.5

judge enters a judgment in a civil fraud case against Donald Trump in which the New York State Attorney General

1:04.0

is sinking $370 million. And that's not all. Don't stop there. There are

1:10.0

much bigger possible judgments coming.

1:13.1

Washington DC juries could make that New York number look small if they return verdicts

1:19.6

against Donald Trump in these civil cases brought against him by 11 members of the House of Representatives.

1:26.8

That's 11 plaintiffs who are suing Donald Trump for in effect threatening their lives on January 6 by sending his mob to the Capitol.

1:35.3

There are also three police officers who are suing Donald Trump for the threats and injuries

1:42.1

that they suffered on January 6th.

1:45.0

Each one of those plaintiffs' cases, each one of them, could be getting hundreds of millions of

1:52.1

dollars in the same Washington DC courthouse where a civil

1:56.1

jury returned a verdict of $148 million against Rudolph Giuliani for the defamation of two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter

2:05.4

Shay Moss.

2:06.4

Donald Trump could be facing court orders to pay a billion dollars or more in the next few years.

2:15.0

And those Washington DC jurors are going to get to hear

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