Lawrence O'Donnell Invited RFK Jr. To Appear On His Show But He Never Came

Robert Kennedy Jr the Jeffrey Dalmer of the animal kingdom has horrified his family almost as much as Jeffrey dmer horrified his family by endorsing the most horrifying Republican Presidential nominee in history the only president who was more of a criminal in the White House than Richard Nixon who Robert Kennedy Jr's father tried to keep out of the presidency by running against him until Bobby Kennedy was assassinated which instantly and it seemed permanently created a beic glow around the name Robert Kennedy a name which his son has now fully disgraced Robert Kennedy Jr's younger sister Carrie Kennedy said quote I'm outraged and disgusted by my brother's gudy and obscene Embrace of Donald Trump and his fra flagrant and inexplicable effort to desecrate and trample and set fire to my father's memory Robert Kennedy Jr told many lies in his speech announcing his endorsement of Donald Trump including this one quote the mainstream media networks maintain a near-perfect embargo on interviews with me end quote over a year ago on July 12th 2023 I issued a public invitation to Robert Kennedy Jr to appear on this program at the time of his choosing and he never chose to do that if he does show up I'll make it easy easy on him by giving him the first question ahead of time I'll give it to him right now it's a new question that I didn't have until I read an article by Kurt Anderson published in the Atlantic this weekend in which Kurt Anderson describes buying cocaine from his college classmate Bobby Kennedy when they were both freshmen at Harvard College in 1972 because Donald Trump favors the death penalty for drug deal ERS the death penalty for doing what Bobby Kennedy did at the end of his article titled RFK Jr was my drug dealer Kurt Anderson suggests this question for Robert Kennedy Jr quote given that you sold cocaine in your youth how do you feel about Trump's advocacy of a regime that might have resulted in your own execution at age 19 of course Donald Trump does not Advocate the death penalty for violations of the Espionage Act or any of the other crimes he's been accused of and for which he is awaiting trial which we will get to in a moment with Andrew Weisman and Neil Cal there are only 71 days left in Donald Trump's political career assuming he comes in second in the Electoral College for the second time in a row and the news media is finally focusing finally focusing on the problems caused by Donald Trump's tariffs well let's talk about uh Trump's record during his first term he did didn't impose rounds of tariffs and it cost Americans nearly 80 billion doar in new taxes do you acknowledge that imposing more tariffs will ultimately cost consumers well what it really does is it penalizes importers from bringing Goods outside the country into the country that answer was of course a lie as is every word Donald Trump has ever said about tariffs it took eight years it took eight years to finally get the news media to focus on the lies Donald Trump and now JD Vance tell about tariffs it has been a very lonely eight years for me having had to explain repeatedly on this program what most people already know which is the tariffs are paid by the consumers in the country that imposes the Tariff China doesn't pay Trump tariffs we pay Trump tariffs that is the point of a tariff the purpose of a tariff is to raise the price of that imported good so that Americans will not be able to buy as much of that imported good so every penny of Trump's tariffs every penny of that has been paid by Americans in the form of higher prices and all of the Tariff money collected by the United States government has been paid out to Farmers across Iowa and elsewhere in the country to make up for the massive losses they have suffered in grain sales to China because China retaliated against the Trump tariffs by among other things not buying agricultural products from the United States of America many of those Iowa farmers who lost their grain cells and their income are still voting for Donald Trump because they're now the biggest welfare recipients in American history they have received $28 billion in cash payments just cash here here it is directly to them for doing absolutely nothing and no one in Republican world is worried about the work ethic of those farmers who are collecting that no strings attached money directly from the federal treasury to make up for the farmers loss of income from trade with China Donald Trump's tariffs are sales taxes on you that are in a effect used to make huge welfare payments to American farmers and now Donald Trump wants to impose even more tariffs which former treasury secretary and Harvard economics professor Lawrence Summers has called the worst economic proposal in US history