They will most likely still lose i polling is any indication, we dont know. They could lose by a historic margin to a front runner, who, lets be, clear has spent more time in court attending His Civil Fraud Trial this week than he has in the state of iowa. Even if now it feels inevitable weve come to this, it was not inevitable. It really wasnt. There was a time in winter 2020, one after january 6th, when donald trump was being impeached for inciting the capitol insurrection, his Approval Rating hit an alltime. Low it looked like very well be sent to do a period of political exile. Then he came back, the 2022 midterms, the elections worked out poorly for most trump endorsed candidates. He backed losers in a ton of winnable races and there seemed to be a daunting wherein us in the Republican Party that he was politically toxic. In 2024 could be a wide open race for republicans. All those folks gotta because if i was beautiful. Not now. Trump is polling at 54 , or 30 points ahead of hale
that is our show for this evening. now it is time for a special defendant trump addition of the last word, with lawrence o donnell. that starts right now. donald trump s principal occupation is defendant. he spent his first couple of years after leaving the presidency as a civil defendant, and then last year became a criminal defendant for the first time in his life on april 4th and just four months later. he became a criminal defendant for the fourth time in his life. it mantra jen, he can make two of the four criminal prosecutions he is facing disappear, but the rest of defendant trump s criminal and civil cases would simply be put on pause for four years. in june of this year donald trump will turn 78 years old. he could be convicted of crimes by then or shortly after, he is june 14th birthday. 78-year-old donald trump will appeal every criminal and civil verdict against him. the state and federal appeals court process could easily use up the rest of a 78 year old life.
they will most likely still lose i polling is any indication, we don t know. they could lose by a historic margin to a front runner, who, let s be, clear has spent more time in court attending his civil fraud trial this week than he has in the state of iowa. even if now it feels inevitable we ve come to this, it was not inevitable. it really wasn t. there was a time in winter 2020, one after january 6th, when donald trump was being impeached for inciting the capitol insurrection, his approval rating hit an all-time. low it looked like very well be sent to do a period of political exile. then he came back, the 2022 midterms, the elections worked out poorly for most trump endorsed candidates. he backed losers in a ton of winnable races and there seemed to be a daunting wherein us in the republican party that he was politically toxic. in 2024 could be a wide open race for republicans. all those folks gotta because if i was beautiful. not now. trump is polling at 54%, or 30 point
unfortunately, because of donald trump, this is going to be a historic election, chris. but for all the wrong reasons. historic because the political polarization is at historic levels. the disinformation is at historic levels. the attitudes towards political violence, as you pointed out, are at historic levels. the volume of threats from extremist groups around the country are at historic levels. and we are also seeing direct threats to public officials and absolutely historic levels. i can backup every single one of those things with statistics. this is an unprecedented election in terms of the fear and division and violence. i would agree with you. i worry it could boil over should donald trump not get what he wants. we already have precedent for. that and we are seeing an intimidation bubble up within the republican party. today i saw videos of ron desantis being mercilessly mocked and stop all the way up, almost to his hotel room in iowa and it wasn t by
the summer of 2020, looked at the polls, saw that his guy was losing, that donald trump was losing. and said you know what, we re just going to declare victory, and say we won anyway. so this is the guy who was in on the idea beforehand, that they were just going to lie, because they knew they were going to lose. now you ve got him talking with a cop, a former cop, about killing two democratic representatives. will there be any fallout from that? well, i don t know. i mean, i don t know what you can do to roger stone. if he is just talking about, it i don t know that it suffices for a conspiracy or anything. you need an agreement to put somebody in jail. but it just goes to show. i mean, this is real, the fact that we can even think it s real tells me tells you a lot of the people who surround donald trump. i mean, donald trump himself is a man without any moral compass. he is a man without conscious, he is a man without remorse, he is a man without empathy. and if the only thing he