On Thursday, MS NOW’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell played host to the idea that President Trump was moments away from complete destruction of the United States Constitution, even leaning on Tucker Carlson adding in his two cents about the impending implosion. With many Republicans having all cut ties to any image that breathes of Trump, O’Donnell simmered it down to Trump’s geriatric tendencies.
With the Iran War the heat of discussion, O’Donnell began his misguided soliloquy by stating the obvious responsibilities that come with being the president, one of those being Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. O’Donnell must have been confused on how wars were fought when he targeted Trump’s age in reference to him sending troops into the Middle East:
And today, we learned why the oldest American president in history to send the American military off to war was not worried at all by the foreseeable, disastrous consequences of that war, some of which were outlined to him by a friend in the Oval Office two days before the war. A friend who has since turned against him
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. Ben Graham
