Lawrence: It's too late for Trump to kill the $1.776B political monster he created

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Sen. Jon Ossoff says Donald Trump doesn’t understand America’s greatness. Also, former Attorney General Pam Bondi defends the Trump Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files. And the Trump administration can’t keep up with the exodus of lawyers. Sen. Gary Peters, Rep. Ro Khanna, and Barbara McQuade join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Dead for now.
0:02.3	Dead for now was the first report today about Donald Trump's slush fund of $1.776 billion
0:10.9	that he was planning to give to people who were convicted of crimes against the United States of America
0:17.2	in their attack on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021 to try to overturn a presidential
0:23.7	election for Donald Trump, to try to kill police officers on the way to doing that,
0:28.1	and to try to kill the vice president of the United States while they were at it.
0:31.3	Donald Trump wanted those people to get money from the federal government.
0:36.0	And now, dead for now, dead for now, through Donald Trump's
0:42.6	criminal insurgency group that attacked the Capitol on January 6th. Dead for now are the words
0:51.9	of an unnamed White House source and told Mark Caputo at Axios,
0:57.5	it's dead for now.
1:00.1	But for the Democrats in Congress opposing the Trump's slush fund, it is not dead enough.
1:05.7	And very much to Donald Trump's surprise, I'm sure.
1:09.1	In fact, I'm sure he doesn't realize this even now.
1:12.0	It is not dead enough for Donald Trump either. It's still alive enough to cause Donald Trump
1:20.5	serious legal problems now of his own. Because the incompetent buffoons around Donald Trump who call themselves lawyers
1:29.1	in the Trump Justice Department and in the White House and the lawyers who represent Donald Trump
1:32.9	personally, they, because they have appear to have wildly outsmarted themselves in putting
1:40.1	Donald Trump in serious legal trouble now with a federal judge, the kind of legal
1:45.6	trouble that Donald Trump's Supreme Court did not spare him from in their decision, granting
1:51.1	Donald Trump criminal immunity for possible crimes that he might commit as president.
1:56.7	Supreme Court didn't foresee this situation and couldn't protect him from it.
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