MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell mentioned Donald Trump managed to utter “the stupidest potential factor he might say” whereas on the witness stand in his civil fraud trial in New York.
“As a result of Donald Trump is among the very stupidest individuals to be charged with enterprise fraud, and since his demonstrably ineffectual legal professionals clearly shouldn’t have the talents to arrange their consumer for even the best and most evident questions, Donald Trump incriminated himself and his kids with the one one-word reply that he gave all day,” O’Donell mentioned on Monday night time.
The phrase got here in response to a query about who within the Trump Group was liable for stopping and detecting fraud.
“Everyone,” Trump mentioned.
“And there, Donald Trump destroyed any shred of protection within the case for himself and his co-defendants, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump,” O’Donnell mentioned. “You may spend weeks attempting to consider a stupider reply than that, and you can’t give you one.”
O’Donnell identified that Choose Arthur Engoron has already decided that Trump dedicated fraud for years. The principle query now’s how a lot of a penalty they are going to face, doubtlessly as much as $250 million.
As a witness, Trump’s job was to make the choose suppose the fraud wasn’t his fault or the fault of his sons and blame his accountants, which might doubtlessly soften the penalty.
As a substitute, Trump “incriminated himself and his youngsters,” O’Donnell mentioned.
See his full evaluation beneath: