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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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

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

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump struggles to campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris. Also, the Supreme Court rejects Missouri’s bid to block Trump’s sentencing and gag order in the hush money case. Plus, The Washington Post reports a $10 million cash withdrawal drove a secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt just days ahead of the 2016 presidential election. And a recent poll finds 49% of voters believe Trump does not have the mental and cognitive health to serve as president. Sen. Laphonza Butler, Andrew Weissmann, Barbara McQuade, and Simon Rosenberg join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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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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