as, the lack of a better term, a bunch of rubs. and looking at his transformation over the course of his career, you can make a very good case that he just says what he needs to say depending on the audience he happens to have. and, that to me, is also a part of the story. but this is a profoundly cynical person weaponizing, really, the worst impulses that we have for his own self aggrandizement has a television personality, and for the agenda of his employers, which is upper income tax cuts, and strengthening the power of large corporations and the very wealthy society. i do want to play him as a figure in history, professor. he represents so much of the inheritance of america on the topic of race. right? this idea of white nobility, white gentility, has been used since slavery times to justify violence against people of
and looking at his transformation over the course of his career you can make a very good case he just says what he needs to say depending on the audience he happens to have. and thatha to me is also part o this story, that this is a profoundlyly cynical person weaponizing for his own self-aggrandizement. i do want to place him as a figure inpl history, though, professor because he represents so much of the inherentance of of america on the topic of race, right? this idea of white nobility and white gentility has been used since slavery times to justify violence against j people of color. and tucker carlson is no
up with him. and tonight, the law finally caught up to him i think this is the weakes case of all the cases agains him in terms of it being a existential threat i still think it is importan that the justice department ge in the next year, because think ultimately that is the only case that is going to kee them out of the white hous again and i do not think tha is a political issue, i thin it is an existential issue we don t trump tried to torc the constitution, it should be kept as far from the white house as possible. having said all of that, i think that alvin bragg had t pursue his own case. he had to follow the law the way that he saw it, when so no he has landed this on the home trump s doorstep donald trump sees everything through to, lenses either self aggrandizement, or sel preservation, and he is clearl going to be going into sel preservation mode here he is never wanted to be per walked, fingerprinted, o paraded in front of the media. i do not know how hi
and out of that comes these threats of violence, and it s endemic to the whole republican party that is at war with government and the idea of democracy. tim o brien, you have studied donald trump closer than any of us. you know him. i theorize about him from afar. my sense is you can tell how panicked he is by how crazy these public statements are. is that a fair interpretation? that is absolutely spot on lawrence. we have talked about this before but there are usually two lenses that you can understand donald trump s behavior through. it is either self aggrandizement or self preservation. and he is clearly in self preservation mode. prior to his presidency, he was only in a place like this once before in the early 1990s when he was in danger of going
renoir painting. this is the fake he had in his house and it s a pretty bad fake because i pulled up the original and i looked at the original right next to it. but he swears that is the real one. he has continued to push that for a long time. is that sort of in that same vein of like he just likes to show off stuff that he has? yeah, look, again, part of the me aspect of this is self-aggrandizement. so claiming a renoir that you can tell looking at the sbintert is not real is part of that. these are real documents. these are real documents and we don t know why he had them. we do know that he was told to give them back repeatedly and it took many, many months in 2021 and he finally sent back some but not all. there was a much longer fight. i don t want to sound as if we re minimizing the potential harm or law breaking or anything else in saying that he simply treated this all as if it was about himself.