Lawrence O’Donnell defined that Trump’s wealth is the elemental lie behind his political success and that lie has been destroyed.
Transcript through MSNBC/”The Final Phrase with Lawrence O’Donnell:”
O’DONNELL: The Trump attorneys defined to the courtroom simply how completely Donald Trump failed in arising with the cash. The lawyer mentioned, quote: These diligent efforts have included approaching about 30 surety firms via 4 separate brokers. A bond requirement of this monumental magnitude successfully requiring money reserves approaching $1 billion is unprecedented for a non-public firm.
So, in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, the foundational lie of Donald Trump’s picture constructing as a politician will probably be uncovered.
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DONALD TRUMP, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT & 2024 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don’t want anyone’s cash. Itâs good. I don’t want anyone’s cash. Iâm utilizing my very own cash.
Iâm not utilizing the lobbyist, Iâm not utilizing donors. I don’t care. Iâm actually wealthy.
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OâDONNELL: That was an unlimited a part of Donald Trump’s preliminary attraction when he started as a candidate. He mounted different appeals together with direct appeals to racists to broaden his base of assist.
However many Trump voters in Iowa believed then and mentioned then in interviews that the Trump wealth that they believed he had was a advantage. They believed he can be incorruptible as a result of he had an excessive amount of cash already to be corrupted.
Donald Trump was mendacity about that. And his voters have been unsuitable to consider it. However they’ve forgiven or neglected each Trump lie that has been uncovered.
And so, on the finish of the day on Monday, most of them may nonetheless be prepared to consider that Donald Trump is as wealthy as he at all times pretended to be.
However Donald Trump is aware of higher. And Donald Trump has proved how wealthy he isn’t to anybody who can suppose.
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Lawrence O’Donnell “So, in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, the foundational lie of Donald Trump’s image building as a politician will be exposed.
” pic.twitter.com/44OYVVeLEIâ Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 23, 2024
The basic lie of Donald Trump’s political profession is that he’s wealthy. Trump has bought himself to Republican voters as smarter, extra proficient, and higher than different individuals due to his wealth, but it surely seems that his wealth wasn’t actual.
Trump wouldn’t have gotten very far in Republican politics if he had run as a a number of time enterprise failure who can’t handle cash and who can solely make a dime by committing fraud,
Donald Trump would say that he was promoting a model, but really he was selling a lie, and Lawrence O’Donnell confirmed why that lie is about to be shattered into one million little items.
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