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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Using the language of Hitler, Trump calls Americans 'garbage' all the time

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

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Vice President Harris addresses Donald Trump’s abortion ban. Also, the Harris campaign is focusing on “blue wall” states. And Senate control is critical to the next president’s agenda. Ben Wikler, Sen. Jacky Rosen, and Sen. Gary Peters join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for our great colleague Lawrence O'Donnell and the last word. Good evening,

0:04.5

Lawrence. Good evening, Alex. It has been a joy to watch, of course, tonight.

0:10.3

Thank you, sir. I'm sorry we were a little late handing it to you.

0:13.0

No, no, no, please.

0:14.0

Go, I believe me. I could watch for another hour.

0:17.0

Thank you very much.

0:18.0

Have a great show.

0:20.0

Thank you.

0:21.0

Well, it was garbage day in the presidential campaign with garbage man Donald Trump, actually climbing, I should say, stumbling into a garbage truck to stupidly draw attention to the free-flowing racism and bigotry at his

0:37.8

Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday which included a comedian no one has ever

0:41.1

heard of referring to Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans as, quote,

0:46.1

a floating island of garbage.

0:50.5

Last night, President Biden said this.

0:53.0

And just the other day a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage.

0:59.0

Well, let me tell you something.

1:01.0

I don't know the Puerto Rican that I know or Puerto Rico where

1:06.1

I've in my home state of Delaware they're good decent honorable people. The only

1:11.1

garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization

1:16.0

is seen as unconscionable and it's un-American. It's totally contrary to everything we've done,

1:21.0

everything we've been.

1:22.0

The Trump campaign immediately and falsely interpreted

1:26.3

that statement to mean that Joe Biden was calling all of Donald Trump's

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