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Lawrence O'Donnell factors out that Trump's wealth is the elemental lie behind his political success and that this lie has been destroyed.
Transcript through MSNBC/”The Final Phrase with Lawrence O'Donnell:”
O'DONNELL: Trump's legal professionals advised the courtroom how Donald Trump did not carry the cash. The lawyer stated, quote: These diligent efforts included contacting roughly 30 surety corporations by way of 4 completely different brokers. Requiring such a lot of bonds successfully requires money reserves of near $1 billion which is unprecedented for a personal firm.
So, in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, the elemental lie of Donald Trump's image-building as a politician can be uncovered.
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Donald Trump, former US President and 2024 presidential candidate: I don't want anyone's cash. That is good. I don't want anybody's cash. I’m utilizing my cash.
I'm not utilizing lobbyists, I'm not utilizing donors. I don’t care. I’m actually wealthy.
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O'DONNELL: When Donald Trump began as a candidate it was an enormous a part of his preliminary enchantment. He made different appeals, together with direct appeals to racists, to increase his base of assist.
However many Trump voters in Iowa then believed and stated in interviews that Trump's belongings have been an asset to what they believed he had. He believed that he wouldn’t be corrupt as a result of he already had an excessive amount of cash to be corrupt.
Donald Trump was mendacity about that. And his voters have been fallacious to consider it. However they’ve forgiven or ignored each lie of Trump.
And so, on the finish of the day on Monday, most of them should still be prepared to consider that Donald Trump is as wealthy as he has at all times pretended to be.
However Donald Trump is aware of higher. And Donald Trump has proved that nobody may even think about how wealthy he’s.
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Lawrence O'Donnell “So, in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, the elemental lie of Donald Trump's picture as a politician can be uncovered.
, pic.twitter.com/44OYVVeLEI-Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) 23 March 2024
The basic lie of Donald Trump's political profession is that he’s wealthy. Trump has portrayed himself to Republican voters as smarter, extra gifted, and higher than different individuals due to his wealth, but it surely seems that his wealth was not actual.
Trump wouldn’t have gone far in Republican politics if he had run as a person who had failed many occasions in enterprise, who couldn’t handle cash and who might solely make a penny by committing fraud.
Donald Trump would say he was promoting a model, however actually he was promoting a lie, and Lawrence O'Donnell confirmed why that lie is about to shatter into 1,000,000 little items.
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