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The Hill
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Hill
Lawrence O'Donnell calls for Mike Lee staff resignations over Minnesota suspect post
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell called for staff members serving for Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to resign following comments he made on social media blaming Democrats for the fatal shooting of a state lawmaker in Minnesota over the weekend. 'Senator Mike Lee's staff now live in the disgrace he has visited upon them, and they all have a moral choice in front of them now,' O'Donnell said late Monday on his nightly show. 'Mike Lee purports to be a man of great religiosity, but he is obviously not a man of great morality or great decency, and his staff has to decide tonight what to do about the disgrace he has handed them,' the 'Last Word' host added. Lee angered many Democrats over the weekend when he responded to news of the assassination of Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband Mark by writing on social platform X, 'This is what happens When Marxists don't get their way.' He followed up with a separate post including a photo of a masked man dressed up as a police officer and a headshot of suspected shooter Vance Boelter with the text 'Nightmare on Waltz Street,' an apparent reference to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D). Boelter, 57, was also accused of shooting state Sen. John Hoffman (D), and his wife at their home. The duo has undergone surgeries and are expected to survive. The suspect was apprehended on Sunday and faces state and federal stalking and murder charges. The Utah Republican was confronted about the posts in the Capitol by Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), who told reporters she wanted the Republican to hear from her 'about how painful that was and how brutal that was to see that on what was just a horrible, brutal weekend.' O'Donnell argued that staffers for Lee should respond to the episode by resigning. 'Minimal Senate decency demands the resignation of any staff member who does not fully support Mike Lee's despicable tweets,' the cable news host said. 'You have your own choice to make. If you agree with Mike Lee's choice to make jokes about assassination of a Democratic officeholder in Minnesota, if you agree with that, then stay with Mike Lee, stick with Mike Lee, stick with him all the way,' he added. 'But if you do have decency, you know you only have one choice.'
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Lawrence O'Donnell Mocks Trump for Backtracking Promise to Deport 15 Million: ‘Slowest and Stupidest President in History'
Lawrence O'Donnell celebrated President Donald Trump walking back his campaign promise to deport 15 million illegal immigrants from the United States. 'The central lie of Donald Trump's deportation campaign promise came apart today,' O'Donnell announced. He pointed to a post Trump made on Truth Social Thursday morning, in which the president noted the concerns of farmers and hotel corporations throughout the country who want to keep their hard-working immigrant employees and wrote, 'We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA.' 'Donald Trump promised to deport every one of those people working on farms. Every one of them. He promised to deport all of them, and then he decided not to deport them today,' the 'Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell' host explained on Thursday night's episode. 'He's not going to deport 15 million people. He's not going to deport a million people. It's over. The mass deportation lie that he never could have done anyway is over. Donald Trump formally, publicly gave up today.' You can watch the full 'Last Word' segment yourself in the video below. In response to a clip of Trump saying that America cannot take away farmers' most hard-working employees, O'Donnell said, 'He was doing it to the farmers!' The MSNBC anchor continued, 'What everyone has been saying for years and years and years in defense of those people who Donald Trump was calling murderers and rapists, everything we've been saying, I guess, has finally sunk in with Donald Trump, the slowest and stupidest president in history.' 'Maybe they don't have what they're supposed to have in legal documentation to be here,' O'Donnell said of the immigrants Trump has been targeting since he retook office in January. 'Donald Trump doesn't care about any of that anymore. The stupidest man in the room finally realizes the Democrats are completely right about this, and always have been.' Unfortunately, O'Donnell noted that Trump's immigration surrender was overshadowed Thursday by California Senator Alex Padilla's forced removal from a press conference with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. 'What Donald Trump said today is not going to make one person in this country feel safer tomorrow,' O'Donnell lamented. 'They won't feel safer because they've all seen what happened to a United States senator today.' 'We are all Alex Padilla tonight,' O'Donnell concluded. 'Any one of us could be the next one on the floor in handcuffs, in the ragingly thuggish, unconstitutional government now run by the stupidest, most dangerous president this country has ever had to endure.' You can watch the full 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell' episode in the video above. The post Lawrence O'Donnell Mocks Trump for Backtracking Promise to Deport 15 Million: 'Slowest and Stupidest President in History' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
Egypt Independent
02-06-2025
- Politics
- Egypt Independent
Degwy family lawyer reveals details of the fortune distribution
The legal representative for Nawal al-Degwy and her two granddaughters, Mohamed Shehata, revealed the fate of the shares between the heirs of Sherif al-Degwy's sons and Mona al-Degwy's daughters such the ownership structure of the companies and institutions under dispute. During a telephone interview with TV host Lamis al-Hadidi on the 'Last Word' (Kalema Akhera) TV show, Shehata said, 'This issue has more than one aspect.' 'Discussing the estate of a living person is a sensitive matter, but the settlement currently underway, sponsored by Nawal el-Degwy, to reunite the family, is still being discussed between institutions and companies and is the subject of negotiations,' Shehata said, adding 'I am optimistic that we will reach a quick solution to this issue.' In response to Al-Hadidi's question: 'Has the late Mona al-Degwy's will actually been opened in the past few days?' Shehata replied: 'Indeed, that happened. A year before her passing, the late Mona al-Degwy had deposited a sealed will at the Real Estate Registry. It was opened and reviewed a few days ago.' He continued: 'In it, she bequeathed a third of her entire estate to her two daughters, Engy and Mahy. I was appointed by the deceased to be the executor of that will.' In response to al-Hadidi's question: 'Is the third she bequeathed outside the (Islamic) legal inheritance?' Shehata said: 'Yes, the third does not include the (Islamic) legal inheritance. Egyptian law allows for a bequest to an heir, as Nawal al-Degwy will inherit one-sixth (from her daughter Mona's estate), and her two daughters will have a share outside the will. The remaining percentage will be distributed among the males of the family, who are Ahmed al-Degwy's heirs: Amr al-Degwy and Mohamed.' Shehata continued: 'Egyptian law also stipulates that the implementation of wills and inheritance begins with the payment of all debts owed by the deceased. Then the will is given, which may not, under any circumstances, exceed one-third, as Mona al-Degwy did. Then, the remainder of the estate after the one-third allocated by the will is distributed according to the legal shares among the grandmother, the two granddaughters, and the grandsons.' Hadidi interrupted him, asking, 'Have you taken stock of this inheritance or what she has left behind?' Shehata replied, 'The inventory process is underway, and it will be part of the comprehensive settlement of all disputes, because we are eager to ensure that no blemish remains in this family.'
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Lawrence O'Donnell Toasts Trump's ‘Worldwide Humiliation' Over Tariffs: ‘Those Proposals Were Constitutionally Insane'
Lawrence O'Donnell celebrated Wednesday night the U.S. Court of International Trade's decision to block President Donald Trump's global tariffs. 'Donald Trump's illegal tariffs are gone,' O'Donnell announced, telling viewers that the world will, consequently, soon 'reset itself around the restoration of law and order in international trade and the crushing of the Trump tariffs and resultant personal worldwide humiliation of Donald Trump.' O'Donnell then called out reporters for not accurately reporting on the legality of Trump's trade proposals during his 2024 presidential campaign. 'The campaign press corps never reported to voters that those proposals were constitutionally insane,' the 'Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell' anchor said. 'The campaign press corps completely failed the American voter on this issue, with American voters just discovering tonight from the [Court of International Trade] just how illegal and unconstitutional the Trump tariffs always have been.' You can watch the full 'Last Word' segment yourself below. O'Donnell noted that the Court of International Trade has granted the 12 Democratic governors suing to stop the tariffs not just a temporary injunction but a complete, summary judgment on the matter. 'As of this hour tonight, it is no longer legal at any port of entry in the United States for a United States customs service to collect a single dollar of Trump tariffs,' the MSNBC anchor explained. The court's ruling, O'Donnell said, serves as a reminder of the separation of powers that defines the U.S. federal government. 'The court was very clear that Congress would have the authority to impose any of these tariffs, but the president simply does not have that legal authority,' O'Donnell told MSNBC viewers. 'In the same sense that the president does have the power to pardon people convicted of federal crimes, which Donald Trump is doing in the most corrupt manner in history, but Congress does not have the power to pardon people convicted of federal crimes.' 'These distinctions in presidential and Congressional power have always been easy and simple for people to understand, and no one has ever disputed them,' O'Donnell explained. Minutes later, the 'Last Word' host concluded, 'It's over. The Trump tariff madness ends now.' Watch the 'Last Word' segment in the video above. The post Lawrence O'Donnell Toasts Trump's 'Worldwide Humiliation' Over Tariffs: 'Those Proposals Were Constitutionally Insane' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Lawrence O'Donnell Toasts Trump's ‘Worldwide Humiliation' Over Blocked Tariffs: ‘Those Proposals Were Constitutionally Insane'
Lawrence O'Donnell celebrated Wednesday night the U.S. Court of International Trade's decision to block President Donald Trump's global tariffs. 'Donald Trump's illegal tariffs are gone,' O'Donnell announced, telling viewers that the world will, consequently, soon 'reset itself around the restoration of law and order in international trade and the crushing of the Trump tariffs and resultant personal worldwide humiliation of Donald Trump.' O'Donnell then called out reporters for not accurately reporting on the legality of Trump's trade proposals during his 2024 presidential campaign. 'The campaign press corps never reported to voters that those proposals were constitutionally insane,' the 'Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell' anchor said. 'The campaign press corps completely failed the American voter on this issue, with American voters just discovering tonight from the [Court of International Trade] just how illegal and unconstitutional the Trump tariffs always have been.' You can watch the full 'Last Word' segment yourself below. O'Donnell noted that the Court of International Trade has granted the 12 Democratic governors suing to stop the tariffs not just a temporary injunction but a complete, summary judgment on the matter. 'As of this hour tonight, it is no longer legal at any port of entry in the United States for a United States customs service to collect a single dollar of Trump tariffs,' the MSNBC anchor explained. The court's ruling, O'Donnell said, serves as a reminder of the separation of powers that defines the U.S. federal government. 'The court was very clear that Congress would have the authority to impose any of these tariffs, but the president simply does not have that legal authority,' O'Donnell told MSNBC viewers. 'In the same sense that the president does have the power to pardon people convicted of federal crimes, which Donald Trump is doing in the most corrupt manner in history, but Congress does not have the power to pardon people convicted of federal crimes.' 'These distinctions in presidential and Congressional power have always been easy and simple for people to understand, and no one has ever disputed them,' O'Donnell explained. Minutes later, the 'Last Word' host concluded, 'It's over. The Trump tariff madness ends now.' Watch the 'Last Word' segment in the video above. The post Lawrence O'Donnell Toasts Trump's 'Worldwide Humiliation' Over Blocked Tariffs: 'Those Proposals Were Constitutionally Insane' appeared first on TheWrap.
