Lawrence: Are Trump's donors really as stupid as Donald Trump believes they are?

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: New details in the Trump classified documents case are revealed in unsealed court records. Also, GOP Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoes a bill on birth control access. Plus, The New York Times reports Justice Samuel Alito displayed two flags used by January 6 supporters. And Sen. Ted Cruz tries to court Democrats in a bid to win his reelection. Andrew Weissmann, Bradley Moss, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and Rep. Colin Allred 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, my friend Lawrence.
0:06.3	Good evening, Alex. And we're going to show that video later in the hour about Donald
0:10.9	Trump saying that he's thinking about coming up with a policy to restrict
0:15.8	contraception and he goes through this jumble of sentences and when I watched it and the audience can decide I was pretty sure I was
0:26.0	watching a guy who doesn't know what the word contraception means that's what I'm
0:30.9	pretty sure. Yes.
0:32.8	Yeah. And later in the interview.
0:34.8	It's a long word, Lawrence, in his defense.
0:36.1	There's more than a few letters.
0:38.0	Could be confusing.
0:39.1	Yeah.
0:40.1	So we're going to show that video.
0:40.6	The audience can decide.
0:41.9	Did Donald Trump actually know what that
0:43.8	word meant when he was answering a question about it. Well he's about to find
0:48.8	out because Democrats are not letting go of yeah it's a now. It is. Have a good show. Thank you.
0:55.0	Well for every day of Donald Trump's almost 78 years of life, FBI agents have carried guns everywhere they go. But Donald Trump is now
1:07.5	pretending that he didn't know that. No one insults the intelligence of Trump voters more than Donald Trump.
1:17.6	And I am sure that most voters who vote for Donald Trump are smarter than Donald Trump and they vote for Donald Trump simply because they hate taxes as much as he does or they think abortion is murder but the people who send money to Trump, who are a tiny, tiny percentage of
1:38.4	Trump voters, really must be every bit as stupid as Donald Trump insists that they are.
1:47.0	Because today, Donald Trump is raising money from those poor people who should know better but don't.
1:55.6	By sending an email saying, breaking from Trump, Biden's DOJ was authorized to shoot me,
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