Lawrence: Trump's stupidity, recklessness, & depravity costing him $551 million

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump owes $551M after the New York civil fraud ruling and E. Jean Carroll verdicts. And Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s father testifies in her Trump disqualification case. Tim O’Brien, Susanne Craig, David Cay Johnston, Faith Gay, Katie Phang, and Melissa Redmon 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 to you on this
0:04.3	Friday, Lawrence.
0:05.3	Good to see you again, Alex, and you know, on this day, Donald Trump thinks he's the one who's
0:10.8	suffering and he couldn't breathe a word about Alexi Nibaldi.
0:15.1	It's just staggering.
0:16.2	This is a person that may be the Republican nominee for president saying nothing.
0:20.4	Alex and in the hearing in Georgia today
0:22.8	Fawny Willis's father was the star witness.
0:26.4	We're going to bring you the audience, some of that video,
0:30.3	really extraordinary testimony from an extraordinary man. I knew none of his history
0:34.6	and I was just amazed what we learned about him on the witness stand.
0:38.0	Yeah he is an extraordinary figure in American life really. Thank you Alex. Have a good show. Thank you. Well since
0:45.2	this network and other news organizations called the presidential election on
0:49.2	Saturday November 7th, 2020, every day of Donald Trump's life has been worse than the day before.
0:57.6	Today is $464 million worse than yesterday for Donald Trump and his children.
1:06.2	There was no suspects, really, in today's judicial finding in the civil fraud case brought
1:11.8	against Donald Trump by New York Attorney General of Tisha James.
1:15.0	Jury verdicts are always suspense. You never know what juries are thinking, but it was always very clear what the fact finder in this case, Judge Arthur Engoran was thinking.
1:25.6	It was very clear what any reasonable person would think when confronted with the evidence
1:31.7	in this case.
1:33.0	In his ruling today, which cost Donald Trump and his children $463.9 million,
1:42.0	including interest.
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