Trump attacks judge & family as hush money trial nears

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump is hit with a gag order ahead of the New York criminal trial. Also, the U.S. says Israel wants to schedule their canceled meeting. Plus, Democrat Marilyn Lands flips an Alabama state house seat campaigning on abortion rights. And Florida Democrats are also looking to secure wins by making abortion rights a key campaign issue in November. Joyce Vance, Susanne Craig, Aaron David Miller, AL Rep. Marilyn Lands, and FL Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Ali Velshi who is in for Lawrence. Good evening
0:05.2	Ali.
0:06.2	Good evening Alex. Thank you for continuing to stay on the story of the difficulty that
0:09.9	migrants face. There's never a time when Paula is not on TV where I don't really just stop to listen, but when
0:15.8	she said it used to be the migrants could pay with cash, now they pay with their bodies.
0:20.9	That's a, boy, that's a line that's going to stick with me for a while.
0:23.2	That is, that is a part of this debate that is never articulated.
0:27.2	Yeah. What is happening to human beings in the name of stricter immigration
0:31.4	protocols is devastating.
0:33.5	But you're telling those stories and Paul is telling those stories and thank you for that.
0:36.5	You have a good night.
0:37.5	We'll see you tomorrow.
0:37.7	You too.
0:38.7	Well today literally hours after New York criminal trial judge Juan Mar Shan imposed a gag order on Donald Trump,
0:46.4	Trump spent the day attacking the judge and his daughter on social media.
0:50.7	Trump's relentless hate-filled attacks, which we will not show on this program, accused
0:56.4	Judge Mershahn's daughter of making anti-Trump posts on an account that a spokesperson for the Office of Court Administration said was hacked
1:06.1	and no longer belongs to her.
1:08.2	Donald Trump leveled the same attacks against the wife of the judge overseeing Trump's civil fraud trial.
1:15.1	Again, the court administration said the account was hacked.
1:19.2	The gag order, which bans attacks from Trump on witnesses, jurors, prosecutors, court staff, and their families,
1:26.0	doesn't specifically restrict Donald Trump from attacking Judge Mershahn or his family.
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