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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Vice President JD Vance attacks judge’s ruling against Trump

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: The Trump DOJ drops charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Plus, House Democrats introduce a bill to block Elon Musk’s treasury access. Also, Donald Trump and Elon Musk spread lies about USAID funding. Rep. Daniel Goldman, Andrew Weissmann, Rep. Haley Stevens, and Dr. Atul Gawande join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Well, now that Donald Trump is back in the White House, impeachment is back in the air again in Washington, not the impeachment of Donald Trump this time, but the impeachment of any judge who rules against Donald Trump.

0:15.6

Donald Trump's vice president has now taken on the role, first modeled in the vice presidency by Richard Nixon's criminally

0:23.6

corrupt Republican Vice President Spiro Agnew, who gleefully became the Nixon White House's attacker

0:31.6

in chief. Spiro Agnew, who was later found to be taking bribes while in the White House,

0:38.3

mounted the kind of nasty public attacks on liberals

0:41.6

and any opponents of the Nixon administration

0:44.2

that Richard Nixon thought were beneath the dignity of the president

0:48.2

and therefore the job of his vice president.

0:51.4

It was Vice President James D. Vance, who decided that judges should have

0:57.6

no power over a president if the president is named Trump. Vice President Vance said,

1:04.3

if a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.

1:09.1

If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor,

1:15.0

that's also illegal.

1:16.3

Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.

1:22.5

The impeachment cry was taken up by South African turned Canadian turned American citizen

1:30.1

Elon Musk, who has never publicly demonstrated the slightest comprehension of jurisprudence

1:37.6

in any country. Donald Trump has not yet used the word impeachment for any of the judges who have ruled against him,

1:46.1

but he has said that the judge who Vice President Vance and Elon Musk are opposed to and Musk wants to impeach,

1:54.1

he's, Donald Trump said, no judge should, frankly, be allowed to make that kind of a decision.

2:02.1

One requirement of being a Trump supporter

2:05.1

from the time he issued the Muslim travel ban

2:08.8

on the first week of his first presidency,

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