Lawrence: Criminal defendant Trump makes history in sleeping court room portrait
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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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, Alicia. We just got the transcript from today's court session and so Andrew |
| 0:10.4 | Weisman and Adam Klessfeld are here to read it. I won't obviously have the time to do that. |
| 0:17.0 | Neil Kattiel is going to be joining us later in the hour to consider what happened on the Supreme Court today, so we have a lot to get to here. |
| 0:24.0 | So much breaking news. |
| 0:25.0 | Good to see you. |
| 0:26.0 | Thanks, Alicia. |
| 0:27.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:28.0 | Well when Donald Trump lived in the White House, he usually wouldn't come down from the |
| 0:31.9 | residents to the workspace in the West Wing until around 11 a.m. |
| 0:37.1 | And when he got to the workspace in the West Wing, |
| 0:40.8 | Walt Nauta, who is now a co-defendant with Donald Trump in Florida, would |
| 0:45.8 | have his Donald Trump's caffeine doses ready for him in the form of Diet Coke constantly |
| 0:52.0 | handed to Donald Trump, often without needing to ask. |
| 0:55.4 | But as a criminal defendant, Donald Trump has to get himself dressed and in the car so that he can get to his new job in Lower Manhattan at the |
| 1:06.6 | criminal courthouse where he has to be in the courtroom by 930 a.m. as a criminal defendant. That is very tough. A very |
| 1:19.2 | tough work day for the laziest president in history. |
| 1:23.7 | Very tough way to start his day. |
| 1:26.5 | Before he entered the courtroom today to observe the selection of jurors |
| 1:31.2 | who will decide if his payoff skiing to Porn Star Stormy Daniels was criminal. Donald Trump testified about the evidence in the case, not under oath of course, but into the microphones of the awaiting news |
| 1:47.0 | media. I was paying a lawyer and walked it down as a legal expense of account. I didn't know. |
| 1:56.6 | Mark it down is a legal expense. That's exactly what it was and you've got indicted |
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