Lawrence: Trump doesn’t know it, but he agrees with Shakespeare

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The New York Times reports Donald Trump’s PACs spent $50M on legal expenses in 2023. Also, House Republicans move to impeach Homeland Security Secy. Mayorkas over the border. Plus, right-wing media targets Taylor Swift. And the Biden campaign releases an ad calling Trump “confused.” Bradley Moss, Andrew Weissmann, Rep. Eric Swalwell, and Simon Rosenberg join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening,
0:04.0	Lawrence. Good evening, Alex and tonight's tonight. I just can't take it anymore.
0:08.0	I have to unburden myself on Republicans, the NFL and
0:14.4	the NFL and Taylor Swift.
0:15.4	Oh, it's time.
0:16.8	I mean, I've, listen, I unburdened myself last night, but we almost took another
0:21.4	pass out of today because it's so absolutely bonkers.
0:25.1	I'm glad you're, it just the whole thing.
0:27.4	It just keeps getting more insane, but there is, there are, I hope, to make serious points
0:32.3	within that story about the dangerous spread of this
0:36.6	kind of insanity and what it can reach to and what insanity does reach to on the Republican side of our politics.
0:45.0	Most Republicans have none of these crazy thoughts,
0:49.0	but the ones who do can end up being extremely dangerous. Yes insanity coupled with
0:54.7	desperation is never a good thing. Well we will get to it later in this hour.
0:58.4	I'll be watching. Thanks Alex. Thank you., Donald Trump finds himself tonight in agreement with William Shakespeare.
1:07.4	Donald Trump doesn't know that, of course.
1:10.7	Because Donald Trump is the most ignorant, least educated man in the history of the American presidency,
1:15.8	including all of those presidents who didn't go to college and were self-educated.
1:21.8	Every American president except Donald Trump,
1:25.0	newer knows the famous Shakespeare line from Henry the 6th,
1:31.0	the first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. In that play
1:36.7	Shakespeare was actually making the point that a cruel ruler cannot afford to have lawyers getting in his way.
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