Lawrence: Trump knows he does not have the mental and cognitive health to debate Harris
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Kamala Harris was in the situation room today with President Biden, while the laziest presidential |
| 0:07.0 | campaigner in history was, as usual, doing nothing. Donald Trump, now the oldest presidential nominee in history |
| 0:16.9 | is running scared and lazy, showing no idea how to campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris. |
| 0:26.0 | Trump's only attempt so far to campaign against Vice President Harris |
| 0:31.0 | was to question her racial identity, something even Lindsay Graham publicly |
| 0:36.1 | advised him to stop doing. |
| 0:38.9 | Donald Trump's most enduring and reliable quality is his stupidity. |
| 0:44.2 | So it is possible that Donald Trump alone in America |
| 0:48.2 | does not understand that black fathers produce black babies. |
| 0:55.0 | But Donald Trump's racist idiocy |
| 0:58.0 | helped Donald Trump in one way last week. |
| 1:01.0 | It helped reduce attention to more important stories, like the one we were just |
| 1:06.2 | talking about, the possible $10 million bribe that Egypt may have paid Donald Trump when he won the presidency in 2016. |
| 1:16.0 | We'll be covering that important story later in this hour, just as Rachel did in the previous hour. |
| 1:22.2 | Because that is a much more important story than anything |
| 1:26.2 | Donald Trump has said and should not be overshadowed by Trump idiocy. 49% of American voters now correctly believe that |
| 1:38.0 | Donald Trump does not have the mental capacity to serve as president of the United States. |
| 1:43.4 | In a CBS poll released yesterday, 49% say that Donald Trump does not have the mental and |
| 1:49.5 | cognitive health to serve as president. Even Donald Trump knows he does not have the |
| 1:56.5 | mental and cognitive health to debate Kamala Harris, which is why in a move that for him was both wise and cowardly, |
| 2:06.0 | he backed out of his promise to participate in a presidential debate scheduled by ABC |
| 2:12.0 | for September 10th. |
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