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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Only Trump thinks threatening war crimes and committing war crimes 'will be my honor.'

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Washington, Policy, Politics, President, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Congress, Versant, Senate, Government

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump makes multiple conflicting remarks on the Iran war. And the Trump administration opens a tariff refund portal. Rep. Adam Smith and Neal Katyal join Lawrence O’Donnell.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today, Donald Trump says, I'm winning a war by a lot.

0:04.7

His FBI director says, I don't have a drinking problem.

0:07.1

And another Trump cabinet secretary who denies having a drinking problem on the job

0:12.6

was fired today or quit.

0:15.8

What's the difference?

0:16.9

Donald Trump's guiding principle in assembling his cabinet and staffing the government was loyalty to Donald Trump, followed by maximum outrage.

0:27.0

Donald Trump obviously set out to pick people who had no significant professional standing in their fields or weren't even in the fields that they would be given jurisdiction over in the federal government.

0:38.1

And the more the choice of those people could infuriate Democrats, the better. That's what got us

0:47.2

Kashyap Pramad Patel as the most unqualified, indeed the only truly unqualified FBI director in history.

0:57.5

It was only in Kashap P. Patel's lawsuit filed today against the Atlantic and reporter Sarah

1:04.7

Fitzpatrick that I, for one, learned, quote, plaintiff Kashap P. Patel is an individual who is a resident and citizen of Nevada.

1:16.0

He's the first FBI director in history who lives in Nevada. In Las Vegas. He's also the first

1:22.3

FBI director in history that we know of to have a girlfriend. And it's, it isn't that we know of, okay, because all the rest of them were married.

1:31.3

He's the only FBI director in history to have a girlfriend,

1:35.3

and the girlfriend doesn't live in Washington, D.C., or Las Vegas,

1:39.3

which means that Kashyat Patel uses an awful lot of federal government jet fuel on his government-funded

1:45.8

plane for rendezvous with his girlfriend.

1:48.4

Cashat Patel filed a frivolous lawsuit today against the Atlantic, which he will surely drop

1:54.7

as soon as he has to respond to real discovery subpoenas that the Atlantic is now legally empowered to bury him

2:05.3

in, demanding via subpoena power, internal FBI communications, including emails and text messages

2:13.2

to prove what the Atlantic reported under the headline. The FBI director is MIA.

2:20.1

Cashat Patel's lawsuit now opens him to discovery subpoenas from the Atlantic to prove everything

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