Lawrence O’Donnell explained that Trump’s wealth is the fundamental lie behind his political success and that that lie has been destroyed.
Transcript via MSNBC/”The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell:”
O’DONNELL: Trump’s lawyers explained to the court how Donald Trump failed to get the money. The attorney said, quote: These diligent efforts included approaching approximately 30 surety bond companies through four separate brokers. A bond requirement of this enormous scale, effectively requiring cash reserves approaching $1 billion, is unprecedented for a private company.
On Monday, in a Manhattan courtroom, the fundamental lie in the construction of Donald Trump’s image as a politician will be exposed.
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DONALD TRUMP, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND 2024 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don’t need anyone’s money. Is cute. I don’t need anyone’s money. I’m using my own money.
I’m not using the lobbyist, I’m not using the donors. I am not interested. I’m really rich.
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O’DONNELL: That was a huge part of Donald Trump’s initial appeal when he first started running. He has made other calls, including direct calls to racists to expand his support base.
But many Trump voters in Iowa then believed and said in interviews that the wealth they believed Trump had was a virtue. They believed he would be incorruptible because he already had too much money to be corrupt.
Donald Trump lied about it. And his voters were wrong to believe it. But they have condoned or overlooked every Trump lie that has been exposed.
And so, as of late Monday, most of them may still be willing to believe that Donald Trump is as rich as he has always pretended to be.
But Donald Trump knows better. And Donald Trump has demonstrated to anyone who can think how rich he isn’t.
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Lawrence O’Donnell “So, on Monday in a Manhattan courtroom, the fundamental lie of Donald Trump’s image building as a politician will be exposed.
” pic.twitter.com/44OYVVeLEI– Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 23, 2024
The fundamental lie of Donald Trump’s political career is that he is rich. Trump sold himself to Republican voters as smarter, more talented and better than other people because of his wealth, but it turned out that his wealth wasn’t real.
Trump would not have gotten very far in Republican politics if he had acted like a repeatedly failed business who can’t handle money and who can only make a dime by committing fraud,
Donald Trump would say he’s selling a brand, but he’s actually selling a lie, and Lawrence O’Donnell has shown why that lie is about to be shattered into a million little pieces.
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