Lawrence O’Donnell Chuckles at Trump Indictment Details: ‘Everything About It Is Incredible’ (Video)
10.06.2023 - 04:11
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Trump subordinates hid documents in a bathroom, and photos of that same bathroom which contains a chandelier.“I know all of you probably feel like I do, that reading this was like reading a crime novel and also a comedy at the same time,” Reid said to the panel. “But there are sort of three buckets here. There is the sloppy handling, having the documents in the loo, having it in the bathroom, and that tacky ballroom, I feel like he should be indicted for the tackiness of the ’80s ballroom.”“Don’t forget about about the chandelier in the bathroom,” panelist and fellow MSNBC primetime host Alex Wagner interjected.“Listen, I mean, that is indictable all on its own, just from a taste point of view.
So there’s that. Then there is the chase for the documents, in which he knows that Corcoran, who is his attorney, has to go and look for them, so he tells… his valet, ‘hide ‘em, hide ‘em, hide ‘em.’ He does that over days,” Reid continued.“And then there is a line. [The valet] lies to the FBI, etc.
So let’s start with the sloppy handling. And I am just gonna go to you first,” Reid said, gesturing at O’Donnell. “It seems to me that when you just go through the actual documents that are at issue in the indictment, it feels like Donald Trump, who didn’t pay attention to his PDB, his Presidential Daily Brief, might have paid a little more attention than we thought and taken stuff home with him.
Because these are obviously documents, most of them, from his time as president.”“What he was doing with that sloppy storage was in and of itself an offense,” O’Donnell began. “Never would have charged for [it]. Would have completely gotten away with it, and in fact, the authorities really wouldn’t know that it was all over the floor in that
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