MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Disgusted by Trump’s Unearthed ’12-Year-Olds’ Remark

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell expressed disgust at a “perverse” old remark that President Donald Trump made about “12-year-olds” that was unearthed by Mediaite amid the fallout from the “Epstein Files” controversy and the latest revelations about Trump’s relationship with deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Mediaite highlighted a disturbing clip Monday morning from a 2006 interview on The Howard Stern Show in which host Howard Stern and co-host Robin Quivers asked Trump about sleeping with younger women.

When Quivers asks for his sexual “age limit,” Trump started out by saying he doesn’t have one — but then said he would definitely draw a line at “12-year-olds” and referenced a then-recent sex scandal.

On Monday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, O’Donnell opened his show with a blistering marathon commentary on Trump and Epstein that included revulsion at the remark:

LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: We know that the only person in the world who Donald Trump actually feels protective of is Donald Trump. And so the only person in the world he would be willing to extend himself to protect in the Epstein files would presumably be himself, Donald Trump. Donald Trump’s place in the Epstein files might be completely innocent. It’s possible. It might simply include press clippings that FBI agents probably have in their files of Donald Trump praising Jeffrey Epstein.

The Epstein files, surely somewhere there, has a copy of the 2002 New York Magazine profile of Jeffrey Epstein in which Donald Trump says, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years, terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. He’s even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it, Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

That’s the kind of thing that appears in FBI investigative files. Donald Trump’s public dating history does not include underage girls, but truly, weirdly, and perversely in 2006, the year Jeffrey Epstein was first charged with sex trafficking, Donald Trump said something very, very strange when he was asked on Howard Stern’s radio show about the ages of women.

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

HOWARD STERN, HOST, “THE HOWARD STERN SHOW”: Do you think you could now be banging 24-year-olds?

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THEN 2006: Oh, absolutely. I have no trouble.

STERN: Would you — would you do it?

TRUMP: I have no problem.

ROBIN QUIVERS, CO-HOST, “THE HOWARD STERN SHOW”: Yeah, do you have an age limit or would you…

TRUMP: If I — no, no, I have no age — I mean, I have an age — I don’t want to be like…

(CROSSTALK)

QUIVERS: The upper bracket, yeah.

TRUMP: … Foley (ph) with, you know, 12-year-olds.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O’DONNELL: Donald Trump was 60 years old, 60 years old. No problem with 24-year-olds. He was 60 years old when you just heard him say he would not want to be involved with a 12-year-old. And, of course, Donald Trump is the only president of the United States in history who has publicly discussed anything like that.

Watch above via MSNBC’s The Last Word.

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