MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell is highlighting “the one honest thing” that he thinks President Donald Trump has ever stated concerning the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, who died whereas awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking prices and as soon as known as Trump his “closest friend.”
O’Donnell performed footage of the sincere second Tuesday on “The Last Word.”
Within the clip, reporters requested Trump earlier within the night whether or not he would meet with Epstein victims who’re demanding transparency, and the president replied: “Nobody suggested that. Certainly I don’t like that whole situation with respect to anybody being abused or hurt, but I haven’t even thought about that.”
“Of course he hasn’t even thought about that,” O’Donnell stated. “That may be the one honest thing Donald Trump has said about Jeffrey Epstein and his survivors. Of course he hasn’t thought about them.”
O’Donnell famous that Trump has dehumanized folks for years, together with migrants and Democratic voters. He stated Epstein, who allegedly as soon as acquired a birthday letter from Trump, and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, have clearly completed so, too.
“And so tonight, Donald Trump said, ‘I haven’t even thought about that,’ and that’s very believable coming from Donald Trump,” O’Donnell stated concerning the president’s indifference. “That’s what Donald Trump said tonight about meeting with Epstein survivors.”
“Those were his words, ‘Nobody suggested that,’” he added. “No, nobody working for Donald Trump — nobody except the Epstein survivors themselves, who Donald Trump dehumanizes to the point of ignoring what they said directly to him.”
O’Donnell then performed footage from a current press convention in Washington, D.C., wherein Epstein’s victims pleaded for Trump to make use of his “power” for good — by releasing any remaining information on Epstein that the Justice Division continues to withhold.
The president reportedly responded to that occasion by calling the the push for the information “a Democrat hoax.”
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“While the Epstein survivors outside the Capitol … were speaking, Donald Trump called them a ‘hoax,’” O’Donnell stated Tuesday. “He dehumanized them while they were speaking. He said in clear, Trumpian language: They are not human beings to me.”
The host went on to play a number of heartbreaking clips of Epstein victims reacting to Trump’s dismissal. Jena-Lisa Jones says she was 14 years previous when Epstein began abusing her in 2003. She instructed O’Donnell final week that she voted for Trump and “put my hope in him.”
“There’s no one [among the group] that is accusing him of any wrongdoing,” she added on the time. “So for the fact that he is saying those things and saying it’s a hoax, who are you hiding for then? Because if it’s not you, then who is it? And that scares me — who is it?”
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