Lawrence: Trump wants your fear. Don’t give it to him.

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Biden campaign releases an ad on Donald Trump’s “blood bath” comment. Also, legal experts decode Judge Cannon’s latest order. Plus, a New York judge denies Trump’s motions to block testimony. And President Biden and Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu hold their first call in more than a month. Timothy Snyder, Andrew Weissmann, Bradley Moss, David Rothkopf, and Peter Beinart join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	So Donald Trump made a big prediction over the weekend that has excited a lot of people.
0:05.6	The bloodbath prediction. Suddenly we discovered the New York Times thinks that's two words. Other news organizations think it's one word.
0:15.2	His fanatical audience at his rally clapped for it.
0:20.5	But they represent, remember, less than 1% of Donald Trump's 74 million voters who voted for Donald Trump last time.
0:27.0	More than 99% of Trump voters have never been to a Trump rally and a large portion of the fanatics who do go to
0:36.1	Trump rallies go to all of them.
0:38.7	So the number of people in this country willing to leave their homes to hear Donald Trump's voice is not increasing.
0:47.7	And hundreds of people who are willing to do almost anything at the sound of Donald Trump's voice
0:54.4	are now in prison because of their devotion to Trump,
0:58.0	which they expressed violently on January 6th.
1:00.8	Other people who heard Donald Trump's prediction this weekend are excited
1:06.0	by it in a very negative direction, many of them and perhaps some of you are feeling
1:12.0	fear tonight because of Donald Trump's words.
1:18.0	That's what he wants you to feel.
1:21.4	He wants you to fear.
1:24.0	He wants your fear.
1:28.0	Don't give it to him.
1:31.0	When Donald Trump predicts there will be a bloodbath in this country, if he doesn't win the
1:36.6	electoral college, you should take that for what it is, a Trump prediction. That prediction is coming from the same man who in a presidential
1:46.3	campaign in the same setting said Mexico would pay for the wall. Not only was Donald Trump unable to get Mexico to pay for a wall
1:55.9	along the entire Mexican border, which would have cost uncountable billions of dollars,
2:02.0	Donald Trump can't even get Mexico to pay his 450 million dollar bond
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