Trump hours away from docs case arraignment in Miami

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump is struggling to assemble a classified documents case legal team. And Rachel Maddow discusses her new podcast, "Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News.” Neal Katyal, Andrew Weissmann and Mary Trump also join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, at 6.38 p.m. tonight, on a right-wing Trump supporting Boston radio show, Donald
0:07.1	Trump was asked the question, the judge will ask him tomorrow.
0:13.6	How do you plead?
0:14.6	Are you going to say anything beyond not guilty?
0:17.6	Are you going to make a statement in court tomorrow?
0:20.3	No, I did.
0:21.3	I just say not guilty.
0:22.3	I didn't do anything wrong.
0:23.9	I did nothing wrong.
0:26.4	What is most important about what Donald Trump said on the radio tonight and this weekend
0:32.4	is what he did not say.
0:34.6	He did not say that he has a right to do whatever he wants with classified documents as he
0:41.0	said a month ago on CNN.
0:43.0	He did not say he has a right as a former president to possess and show classified documents
0:49.6	to anyone he wants to.
0:51.6	Didn't say that.
0:52.6	He's not saying that anymore.
0:55.2	That was Donald Trump's public defense.
0:57.8	He actually thought that was a defense when he was last on CNN live in that town hall.
1:04.0	That's the kind of defense that would guarantee Donald Trump being convicted.
1:08.4	And so in his first public comments since being indicted, Donald Trump has stopped offering
1:14.5	any kind of defense and instead offers adjectives about the prosecution, including adjectives
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