Lawrence on Trump's Taylor Swift attack: 'The most hateful mind' in presidential history

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The future of the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary is at stake in 2024. Also, a new report details how Justice Roberts sent a memo suggesting the Supreme Court should grant Donald Trump immunity. And a new book reveals new details about Trump’s finances. Sen. Gary Peters, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well breaking news for Republicans who already know this news because this is something they pay attention to.
0:06.7	The stock market closed at another all-time high today as the Biden stock market continues to
0:16.2	outperform the stock market under every previous president. That means
0:21.0	the rich are getting richer, much richer, during the Biden administration,
0:28.2	something that Donald Trump has always promised rich people would be impossible.
0:37.0	But rich people have actually always done better
0:40.0	in the stock market and in the economy
0:42.0	under Democratic presidents than under
0:44.3	Republican presidents. People of all income levels have historically been better
0:48.9	off economically under Democratic presidents than under Republican
0:52.3	presidents.
0:53.1	That is a simple fact of economic life in America, an often ignored simple fact of economic life
1:00.6	in America. On Sunday morning at 1044 a.m. a 78 year old Florida man screamed at the top of his social media lungs,
1:16.8	I hate Taylor Swift.
1:20.6	Unfortunately for Donald Trump,
1:22.3	no one was surprised.
1:25.0	No one thought he was better than that.
1:29.0	No one, not his supporters, no one.
1:32.0	Hate is not a presidential verse. not his supporters, no one.
1:32.8	Hate is not a presidential verb.
1:35.7	You can check the public statements of most presidents
1:38.5	and never find them saying they hate a person.
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