Lawrence: Donald Trump is not stupid enough to believe everything Donald Trump says

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump lies about presidential immunity after his court loss. Also, a new amicus brief on Trump’s ballot disqualification calls for the Supreme Court to use a “50-state solution.” Plus, Republicans block a bipartisan border bill after Trump criticizes the deal. And Democrats probe potential ethics and tax violations by Justice Clarence Thomas. Barbara McQuade, Glenn Kirschner, Akhil Amar, Sen. Jon Tester, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse 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,
0:04.3	Alex. We're going to be joined by a Yale Law School professor who's actually
0:07.8	going to elaborate on what Hillary Cleveland was telling you about what the
0:11.9	Supreme Court might do and elaborate on exactly
0:14.7	Hillary Clinton's idea in detail.
0:17.9	And it's a two Senator Knight here, of course, on the eve of a Supreme Court argument. We have Senator Sheldon White House. But also we have
0:27.0	Senator John Tester and Alex, I don't know, we know him as the mild-man and of course, toughest person in the United States
0:35.4	Senate because he's an actual working farmer.
0:38.3	Yeah, he has a major majorly huge tractor.
0:40.8	Yeah.
0:41.8	He sent out an email today that begins with I'm sick of this
0:47.0	BS. So I don't know. We might be we might be getting gloves off John Tester in this hour.
0:55.3	Yeah, we're going to find out what BS exactly he's, that's coming up.
1:00.8	So keep it a family program tonight, Lawrence, keep a family program.
1:04.0	I'll be watching.
1:05.0	Thank you, Alex.
1:06.0	Have a good show.
1:07.0	Thanks.
1:08.0	Well, Donald Trump has been administering a national intelligence test of Americans since 2011 when he began lying about President
1:17.2	Obama's birth certificate.
1:20.0	Millions of Americans failed that intelligence test when they believed
1:24.8	Donald Trump's lies about President Obama's birth certificate and his lies
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