Lawrence O'Donnell: 'You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks' - The Last Word - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how former White House Press Secretary Hope Hicks’ testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal trial shows how her motto of “deny, deny, deny” enabled the Trump White House. - Aired on 05/03/2024.

[fierywoman]

1. Thanks again for the post, dear one!

[Rhiannon12866]

2. You're more than welcome! So glad Lawrence O'Donnell went to court today, meant we got to see him on a Friday!

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

3. True

Enablers. They are also called Flying Monkeys. Every narcissist has some.

[SouthBayDem]

4. It's unfortunate MSNBC doesn't publish transcripts anymore

Lawrence's full rant about Hope Hicks's lack of integrity really deserves to be written out.

In this clip the real meat of the rant starts around 3:30 after the intro mocking Trump's glaring at Lawrence in the courtroom.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Thanks! Agreed, I'd also like to read over all he had to say.

Lawrence O'Donnell has long been a favorite of mine, experience in Congress and very well spoken. He also has the best guests, Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal, Laurence Tribe, Timothy Snyder - one night he had both Glenn Kirschner and Mary Trump, but so many videos of his terrific guests aren't uploaded.

[SouthBayDem]

6. i'll check if LexisNexis has a transcript

I'm going to my college's library tomorrow and may be able to access the LexisNexis cable news database.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Thanks! While I assume they have scripts for monologues, I'm guessing with guests it's an ad libbed discussion.

[Rhiannon12866]

14. You also might want to check out this reply:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/132118418#post10

AllBlue (66 posts)

10. Those looking for a transcript

Plz see this :

https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=-EmHOSRDveE

[AllBlue]

10. Those looking for a transcript

Plz see this :

https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=-EmHOSRDveE

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Thank you!

[Abolishinist]

21. Thanks for the link!

I'm familiar with going to YouTube, below the part that starts with "xxx,xxx views...", clicking on 'more' if the description continues, and then hitting 'Show transcript', which then shows the verbiage (electronically rendered) to the right of the screen, but I wasn't aware of this site. Clicking the 3 vertical dots to the right of 'Transcript' allows you to toggle to get rid of the time stamps and see essentially what is produced in the site you provided the link to.

One advantage to doing this as above is that, at least for the Lawrence example, the video portion is larger.

[SunSeeker]

8. A must watch.

He utterly destroys anyone fawning over Hope Hicks.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. And he was in the courtroom today so he was able to watch all that happened first-hand

[brush]

11. Thanks so much for this. Lawrence keeps delivering the goods.

As for Hicks, I hope she sees this and gets an understanding of the harm that can be done by going along and doing nothing, continuing to facilitate evil.

Another question she might ask herself is why she didn't quit the trump admin during those years of his continued lying and evil doing? And especially on J6 like Cassidy Hutchinson did?

No conscience and no depth perhaps?

[Rhiannon12866]

13. I've wondered that, too. A great many quit over TFG's insisting he "won," followed by resignations after January 6th

I've started listening to Liz Cheney's book in my car - she had a front row seat to everything that led up to J6 and all that happened afterwards. TFG had been pressured by Republicans in Congress and a group of retired Secretaries of Defense to admit that he lost - not to mention the investigations of the election he commissioned which all concluded he lost and he lost every court case he tried. But he only ramped up his public statements and threatened Republicans in Congress if they didn't "object." And one who tried to play both sides was Kevin McCarthy.

[MagaSmash]

15. Some Refreshing Righteous Anger at Enablers.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Agreed, and Lawrence kept his cool when TFG gave him a hateful look!

[MagaSmash]

17. watching Hicks kiss/greet reporters made my blood boil. trump's way of buttering up the press.

I'm sure he only hired her so his perverted mind could get a glimpse of her in the hallway

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Yikes! And I certainly agree, Lawrence said that she was closest to TFG, had her desk right outside his office

And we know there were all those stories of him walking into teenage girls' dressing rooms when he participated in those "contests."

[iluvtennis]

19. It was an epic take down of Hope Hicks and her privilege. Wow, Lawrence went there.

[OAITW r.2.0]

22. You should watch this Hope Hicks. If you cand stand it.