Lawrence: Trump knows he's losing his 'slush fund' and his ballroom

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: GOP lawmakers speak out against Trump’s “slush fund.” Also, a former Jeffrey Epstein assistant names three new alleged abusers. Plus, Keisha Lance Bottoms wins the Democratic nomination for Georgia governor. And global concerns grow over the Ebola outbreak in Africa. Sen. Alex Padilla, Rep. Ro Khanna, Keisha Lance Bottoms, and Nicholas Enrich join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence.
0:02.5	So Donald starts right now.
0:04.6	Hello, my friend.
0:05.6	Good to see you, Lawrence.
0:06.3	Hey, Michael, great to see you doing extra duty tonight on a really busy Trump madness night to cover.
0:15.1	Yes.
0:16.2	Oh, a lot of whole cray cray out there.
0:18.0	I'm sure you're going to cover some of it.
0:20.3	We're going to get right to it,
0:21.8	Michael. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Michael. Take care. Well, Washington agrees on something.
0:30.1	It is officially a slush fund. That is the agreed upon Washington term for Donald Trump's
0:35.5	fund for paying people who committed crimes
0:37.8	for Donald Trump. Democrats started calling it a slush fund right away, but now Republicans
0:43.2	are calling it a slush fund. Former Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell called it a slush fund
0:52.0	today. Mitch McConnell, who is the senior senator from Kentucky,
0:56.6	can now be counted as a no vote on Donald Trump's slush fund when it comes to a vote in the
1:03.1	United States Senate. Sometimes it's difficult to find the right word, the right phrase, the right
1:08.6	label for the latest Trumpian madness,
1:11.6	the latest Trumpian crime against sanity.
1:14.0	But now Republicans and Democrats agree it's a slush fund.
1:18.8	We will soon have polling on Donald Trump's slush fund.
1:22.8	But as of now, every new poll that comes out already shows Donald Trump at new lows in that poll.
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