Lawrence: Trump is the first candidate to ever campaign for his right to commit any crime

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump blames Nikki Haley for the January 6 Capitol attack. Also, Democrats highlight the impact of Republicans overturning Roe v. Wade. Plus, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office is investigating a fake robocall impersonating President Biden. And a poll finds most Florida voters support the proposed abortion amendment. Andrew Weissmann, Joyce Vance, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Richard Stengel, and fmr. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, the 77-year-old defendant Donald Trump is now the first presidential candidate in history
0:07.6	to campaign for the presidency by campaigning for the right to commit any crime he wants to commit as
0:16.7	president of the United States. Here is Donald Trump making his case yesterday
0:21.4	to the voters of New Hampshire about why he should be allowed to
0:26.6	commit crimes as president.
0:30.5	If you have a president that doesn't have immunity, he's never going to be free to do anything
0:35.0	because the opposing party will always indict him as soon as he leaves the White House.
0:40.0	And you can't let that happen.
0:41.2	You can't.
0:42.2	You take away all of the power of the presidency it'll be a different
0:45.2	country.
0:46.2	The immunity that Donald Trump is asking for does not exist in the Constitution or in law and that is why he is appealing
0:56.4	to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington DC to create the kind
1:00.9	of presidential immunity that no president has ever had.
1:05.0	Donald Trump's claim that without criminal immunity,
1:09.0	every president will be prosecuted after leaving office
1:12.0	is easily proven wrong by something called American
1:16.2	history about which Donald Trump knows absolutely nothing.
1:21.1	The only president prior to Donald Trump who faced even the possibility of
1:26.5	criminal prosecution after leaving office was Republican President
1:30.0	Richard Nixon who resigned the presidency when he was convinced that he would be
1:36.0	convicted in a Senate impeachment trial and removed from office.
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