Trump, some co-conspirators negotiate bond terms in GA case

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump’s bond is set at $200,000 in the Georgia election case. Also, Mark Meadows files a motion to dismiss the charges against him. And a former Harvard president protested segregation in Virginia at age nine. Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal and Drew Gilpin Faust join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, the most important thing about Donald Trump's announcement tonight that he will,
0:04.0	quote, be going to Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday to be arrested is what he did not say. Donald
0:11.5	Trump did not ask or beg his followers to be there to protest. Remember all the worried
0:20.4	anticipation not shared on this program about what might happen in Lower Manhattan when Donald
0:28.4	summoned his supporters to protest his arrest there that day. What happened is exactly what
0:36.4	I expect that to happen. They did not show up. Donald Trump got 70,000,000 people to vote for him
0:45.6	the last time for president, and he got about two dozen of them to show up. Not so much to protest
0:52.3	his arrest, but to try to catch a glimpse of their hero going into the building, which most of them
0:57.2	could not do because they were so far away from that entrance of the courthouse. I walked
1:02.4	among those Trump supporters and protesters that day with 100% confidence that they would be 100%
1:10.4	peaceful and they were more than a thousand of the people who were willing to mount a violent
1:16.2	attack on the government for Donald Trump on January 6th are either in prison or on their way to prison
1:22.8	and with them out of the way, it appears there's no one left to protest Donald Trump's arrests
1:29.6	and no one knows that better than Donald Trump. The people who showed up in Manhattan and in Florida
1:35.3	for Donald Trump's arrest were mostly people who were just hoping they could waive to their friends
1:40.0	at home through a TV camera. There were more members of the press news media at both of those
1:45.9	arrests than there were so-called protesters and those cameras from of the news media
1:52.4	attracted the protesters even more, possibly than their desire to protest Donald Trump's arrest.
2:00.2	In Donald Trump's deeply perverse mind, he is probably hurt more by the willful refusal of his
2:09.1	followers to show up to protest his arrests than he is by anything actually written in the criminal
2:14.4	indictments against him. Donald Trump has given up, he's given up trying to scare you
2:21.6	by issuing dangerous sounding calls for protests at his arrests because Donald Trump believes
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