Lawrence: Obama hits 'loonier' Trump as Trump's WH chief of staff calls him a 'fascist'

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Former President Obama and Eminem rally to turn out the vote in Detroit. Also, Democrats campaign on preserving Obamacare. And Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly, says Trump is a “fascist.” Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Professor Timothy Snyder join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The breaking news of the night is Donald Trump's longest serving chief of staff in the White House,
0:06.3	John Kelly, is now making public statements in two interviews today and tonight opposing Donald Trump's candidacy.
0:14.8	Donald Trump was the stupidest major party nominee for president when he first ran for
0:19.6	president eight years ago, now at age 78, he is demonstrably even stupider. His proposals
0:27.0	about tariffs, for example, have gone from childishly naive eight years ago to crazily deranged now. Just on economic policy alone
0:36.0	Donald Trump is the stupidest and most dangerous presidential candidate in
0:41.0	history but the breaking news of the night is that
0:44.0	Donald Trump's longest serving White House chief of staff, former Marine Corps
0:48.4	General John Kelly, has gone public in two interviews to warn the country against the dangers of allowing
0:56.8	Donald Trump to win the Electoral College again. The New York Times has released
1:00.9	audio of its interview with John Kelly saying among other
1:06.4	things that Donald Trump is indeed a fascist.
1:09.7	Certainly the former president is in the far right area.
1:20.0	Certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators.
1:28.0	He has said that.
1:30.3	So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist for sure.
1:37.0	74 years after General Dwight D Eisenhower and the greatest generals in the history of combat
1:46.2	defeated Adolf Hitler in World War II and drove him to suicide.
1:51.9	General John Kelly still had to battle Adolf Hitler in Donald Trump's White House.
1:57.0	What would you say when he said to you that Hitler did a lot of good things?
2:03.0	Well, I tell him that. I said, you know, sir, if you, first of all you should never say that.
2:09.0	But if you knew what history, Hitler was all about from the beginning to the end.
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