MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday slammed “sociopath” President Donald Trump over his newest lies concerning the Iran struggle, highlighting one confession from the “mad bomber” that does look like real — and can “reside in infamy” for hundreds of years to come back.
The “Final Phrase” host started with a declare Trump made Tuesday when requested if he’s “afraid” Iranian officers could be proper in warning {that a} U.S. floor invasion there would resemble one other disastrous Vietnam Struggle. The president mentioned, “I’m actually not afraid of something.”
O’Donnell performed a clip of the Oval Workplace trade earlier than roundly debunking that reply.
“These are his actual phrases, ‘not afraid of something,’” the MS NOW host mentioned. “The person who has spent years afraid of the Epstein recordsdata and remains to be blocking the total launch of the entire Epstein recordsdata. The person who wears foolish hats as a result of he’s afraid his hair could be blown misplaced.”
“The person who’s afraid of letting anybody see his pure pores and skin coloration or his faculty transcript or his SAT scores,” O’Donnell continued, including: “The person who was very, very afraid of being drafted into america Military throughout the Vietnam Struggle.”
He marveled on the notion that Trump now claims to be fearless and at how “excellent” it’s for a query about Vietnam to immediate this lie — as Trump’s father reportedly helped him keep away from the 1968 draft by having a health care provider diagnose him with bone spurs.
O’Donnell famous that this identical man is now sending People into struggle. The battle has already killed at the very least 13 U.S. service members and greater than 1,400 Iranians and led Nationwide Counterterrorism Middle Director Joe Kent to resign in protest.
Kent wrote in his resignation letter Tuesday that he “can not in good conscience” assist the struggle, as Iran “posed no imminent risk” to the U.S. and the struggle was launched “on account of strain from Israel.” Trump later mentioned he “at all times” felt the fight veteran was “weak.”
O’Donnell uncovered that lie simply as swiftly by exhibiting viewers a screenshot of Trump showering Kent with unbridled reward on social media after nominating him to his now-former place.
He later excoriated the president over a very chilling confession.
“No president in historical past has ever claimed to drop bombs ‘only for enjoyable,’” mentioned O’Donnell. “That may, in fact, model that president as a sociopath. And so, in fact, Donald Trump mentioned precisely that.”
The president instructed NBC Information in an interview Saturday that he may hold bombing an Iranian oil facility on Kharg Island “only for enjoyable.” O’Donnell has usually chronicled Trump’s brazen rhetoric however argued the president’s newest feedback are a wartime confession of historic proportions.
“That phrase will reside in infamy with Donald Trump’s title for a whole bunch of years, as historians are capable of isolate these phrases, ‘only for enjoyable,’ because the conclusive proof they might want to make the case that Donald Trump is a sociopath,” he mentioned.
O’Donnell continued, “That Donald Trump was a mad bomber in each sense. Each historian will have the ability to see that he was a madman who thought bombing was enjoyable.”
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