Lawrence O’Donnell often tries to wax poetic on his MSNBC show, The Last Word, but he’s really just an unserious person speaking in a solemn tone. On Wednesday, O’Donnell tried to claim that Union Station in Washington, D.C. doesn’t have a crime problem and cited a movie released in 1939 and a man who hasn’t been a senator since January 2009 to make his point.
As White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Vice President JD Vance went to Union Station to thank the National Guard troops for their service and confronted protesters along the way, O’Donnell looked back:
The iconic Amtrak railroad station through whose glass doors Jimmy Stewart first saw the Capitol Dome when he arrived in Washington. In Frank Capra's classic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, there were no soldiers in the shot when Jimmy Stewart's character, the newly appointed Senator Jefferson Smith, arrived at Union Station. And there have never been troops at Union Station. In the decades of both the 20th and 21st century that I've been arriving at and departing from Union Station in Washington, D.C.
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