“The Last Word” host Lawrence O’Donnell predicted Thursday that 2023 will either be the first time a former US president is charged with a crime or the year Donald Trump “finally puts all his criminal legal problems behind him.” Will leave.”
But he also pointed out that Trump’s legal woes are not all bad news for the Republican Party. In fact, criminal charges “may actually help House Republicans,” the MSNBC host said.
O’Donnell said, “If Donald Trump is charged with a crime, it might actually help House Republicans because it would take attention away from the way they’re humiliating themselves in their own hearings.” Are.”
He said, for example, that the GOP won’t present a budget for the federal government on Thursday because “they don’t have one.”
“Instead, he held bizarre hearings in which Republican members of the committees and their witnesses were truthfully humiliated over and over again,” he said.
O’Donnell continued to play clips of several House hearings, noting that there was “hypocrisy” in all of them.
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Another was about enforcing subpoenas served on the Biden administration, with Democrat Eric Swalwell calling for hearings despite being “completely out of compliance in the previous Congress” by ignoring a subpoena related to the events of January 6. Republican Jim Jordan was reprimanded for this.
In the final clip, Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reprimands her Republican colleagues for focusing on why the federal government has “woke up.”
“There is no definition of what a wake up call is, but what is being criticized in this hearing is that the so-called wake up policies result in remote work for federal workers, particularly those who live in rural areas and those with disabilities. Intern so that important opportunities don’t reach just the privileged kids whose parents can afford to pay their rent while they go on free internships,” she said. “This is the one who has woken up here. This is what the other side is saying. Wake up here.”
Watch O’Donnell’s full “The Last Word” segment in the video above.
