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Velshi

LIES & ACCOUNTABILITY, AND MORE

Velshi

MSNBC

Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8687 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi reports the latest on the future of American Democracy, post-Roe America, and more

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning. It is Saturday, May 13th. I'm Ali Velshi. Impeached, indicted, liable, and unrepentant.

0:13.0

Pretty much sums up where things stand for Donald Trump as he pursues another bid for the White House.

0:17.0

The former president and the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination

0:21.5

continues to test the limits of the law, even as he remains tangled up in a multitude of

0:27.1

legal troubles. All of this on full display for the public over the past week. On Tuesday, a jury

0:32.2

found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer and former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll,

0:39.4

who accused Trump of raping her inside a Bergdorf-Gudman dressing room back in the mid-1990s.

0:45.0

Yet just one day later, Trump appeared on a nationally televised town hall event and mocked Carol

0:51.7

again and continued to claim that her allegations were, quote, a fake story.

0:57.5

Now, this is not an isolated instance for Donald Trump either.

1:00.2

It's a pattern of behavior.

1:01.3

He's got a long history going back decades of weaponizing the legal system to his advantage.

1:05.8

And in just the last few years, we've repeatedly witnessed his disdain for the law.

1:12.2

Trump also used Wednesday's town hall to further advance his election denialism more than two and a half years after those ballots

1:17.8

were cast. He once again called the 2020 presidential race rigged. He made other claims not rooted in

1:24.1

truth or fact, and did so despite the fact that dozens of courts and judges around

1:28.7

this country shut down his legal team's many efforts to overturn the results of the 2020

1:34.4

election. Trump's election denialism led to the deadly and violent January 6th insurrection

1:39.5

at the Capitol, for which Trump was impeached for a second time just days before he was set to leave office.

1:46.4

But at Wednesday's town hall, Trump once again called January 6th, quote,

1:50.3

A Beautiful Day, end quote.

1:52.9

He even threw out a lifeline to his far-right extremist followers by dangling pardons for many of the rioters

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