Lawrence: NY fraud case will expose Trump's foundational political lie about his wealth
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 23 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to a special Friday edition of the last word focusing on |
| 0:14.7 | defendant Trump. Donald Trump has not come up with a magical solution |
| 0:18.7 | to prevent New York's attorney general Latisha James |
| 0:21.0 | from beginning the process of attaching his assets on Monday in order |
| 0:25.0 | to guarantee the payment of a $464 million civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump. |
| 0:32.1 | The merger announced today between Donald Trump's social media company with a much higher valued company called the Digital World Acquisition Corporation can do nothing to change Donald Trump's |
| 0:44.7 | financial capacities on Monday when Donald Trump hits the deadline for |
| 0:49.0 | satisfying the judgment against him. If Donald Trump had $464 million, he could just post it |
| 0:57.1 | with the court as a guarantee that he could cover the judgment if he loses his appeal of the case. |
| 1:04.2 | But Donald Trump doesn't have that much money, |
| 1:06.7 | despite claiming to have had much more than that |
| 1:10.6 | for many, many years now. And Donald Trump has not been able to get anyone to lend him that money |
| 1:17.4 | so that he could post a bond with the court for the judgment, |
| 1:21.2 | which would then protect his assets. |
| 1:23.4 | The court gave Donald Trump 30 days to figure this out and he hasn't been able to. |
| 1:30.0 | And so now, as financial reality closes in on him, Donald Trump goes to bed lying and wakes up lying. |
| 1:37.3 | Last night at 154 a.m. |
| 1:39.7 | he posted one of his familiar lies on social media saying that the judgment against him |
| 1:45.0 | was unconstitutional and unfair and that it was designed by the judge to quote |
| 1:51.8 | not allow me to use any of the large amount of cash I have |
| 1:56.7 | built up over the years through hard work, insight, instinct, and diligence on my |
| 2:02.0 | political campaign for president. |
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