On Monday's Last Word panel,Lawrence O'Donnell discussed whether Trump will own to choose between "paying" for his magnificent border wall, and providing the massive aid and clean up after Hurricane Harvey. Don't forget that much of the money taxpayers shell out for hurricane clean up goes to private contractors. Dick Cheney's Halliburton got no-tender contracts for Katrina cleanup, and so perhaps Donald Trump and his friends can see a puny benefit,too. Ya contemplate!?Maria-Theresa Kumar first discussed the horrors of Joe Arpaio's detention concentration camps. Ron Klain pointed out that Donald Trump threw the book at the structure for no other reason than he likes Joe Arpaio's racist birther politics. And the nonsense about announcing the pardon during a hurricane because it would get better ratings, was either "tortured, or a lie,or both." Lawrence said, "It goes without saying that there is no way Joe Arpaio would own gotten a pardon whether he weren't a Donald Trump supporter." "And past presidents own always been very careful, and own been afraid,of being associated with...of pardoning people who were their supporters."Steve Bell, a budget expert at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and made the panel laugh when asked about Trump's promise that funding hurricane relief was going to be quick and easy:"It's the same way he said he would own a tax bill by August." The White House recently announced they would own NO tax bill and would leave it to Congress. read more
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