Lawrence O’Donnell Blasts Trump Over 9/11 Lies (VIDEO)
Donald Trump falsely claims he lost “hundreds of friends” in the September 11 terrorist attack.
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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell blasted Donald Trump late Tuesday for his false statements about the number of friends he lost in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
“As soon as Trump said that in the campaign debate in South Carolina that he lost hundreds of friends on 9/11, I said that he was lying,” O’Donnell said on MSNBC.
“I didn’t know how many friends he lost on 9/11 but I knew it wasn’t hundreds.”
O’Donnell was referring to Trump’s claim during a 2016 Republican presidential primary debate where Trump said that he lost hundreds of friends after the 9/11 attacks.
O’Donnell went on to say it was clear Trump was lying because he immediately changed the figure a day later while speaking on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” Trump said that he lost many friends on Sept. 11, 2001.
And O’Donnell pointed out, it was obvious Trump was lying when he made those comments because Trump did not attend a single funeral related to the terrorist attacks.
“Donald Trump did not attend a single 9/11 funeral,” O’Donnell said. “Not one. There has been much debate in the news media about how do you know when a Trump lie is a lie and not just a falsehood.
“One way of knowing is that he stops saying it. And when I held that lie up to Donald Trump’s face even he could see how evil that lie was. And even Donald Trump knew he could never try to tell that lie again.”
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