MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Hits Trump With ‘R’-Word Over Epstein Blockbuster — Could ‘Crush’ Trump’s Career

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell floated the possibility that the Jeffrey Epstein email dump directly citing President Donald Trump could “crush” Trump’s political career — and even lead to the big “R”-word: resignation.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee dropped a bomb Wednesday morning with the release of emails that Jeffrey Epstein sent to accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff that directly referenced Trump.

Republicans responded with a dump of tens of thousands more documents and emails, many with explosive revelations.

On Wednesday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, O’Donnell — whose program was instrumental in the genesis of the email dump by the Epstein estate — said the revelations have the potential to end with Trump’s resignation, and compared Vice President JD Vance’s behavior with that of another VP whose president resigned in disgrace:

LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: A Democratic member of the House of Representatives who gets the idea of issuing a subpoena to the Epstein estate on this program and then brings that idea into a Republican house of representatives and prevails and manages to persuade a House of Representatives controlled by Donald Trump’s loyalists to do something that has the potential to not just crush Donald Trump as a politician, but depending on what else might be revealed in the Epstein files and as a result of this subpoena, maybe Donald Trump’s presidency could come to an end. Maybe Donald Trump could become the second president to resign the presidency. The second Republican president to resign the presidency.

How bad can this get for Donald Trump? We have no idea. But he does.

Donald Trump knows exactly how bad it can get because he knows everything about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. He knows everything that is or might be in the Epstein files or in the possession of the Epstein estate that could be damaging to him. He knows, and we see the way he’s behaving about this.

This might be the worst of it. What we’ve discovered in Jeffrey Epstein’s emails today might just be the worst of it. And if it is, then Donald Trump can probably survive this.

But Donald Trump himself is making an all-out effort to stop the release of the Epstein files after these emails were released today. Donald Trump has made the judgment that what remains hidden in the Epstein files must never be seen by anyone.

And that is why he had Congresswoman Lauren Boebert in the White House today hoping she would be convinced to take her name off of the discharge petition which she had already signed in the House of Representatives. She did not bend to that pressure.

The discharge petition has been officially filed after getting its 218th signature today when the newest member of the House of Representatives, Adelita Grijalva, in her first act as a member of the House became the most important member of the House today when she provided the 218th signature for that discharge petition which will come to a vote possibly next week in the House of Representatives that would force the release of the Epstein files.

J.D. Vance is doing exactly what Gerald Ford did while the Nixon presidency was sinking and Richard Nixon was under increasing pressure over several months that led to his resignation. Gerald Ford said nothing.

When things were the darkest for President Richard Nixon, Vice President Gerald Ford said nothing. And when Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Vice President Ford said, “Our long national nightmare is over.”

Tonight, J.D. Vance is silent. Tonight, J.D. Vance is Gerald Ford. Gerald Ford said nothing about Richard Nixon, as Nixon sank deeper into scandal as Nixon on his way to impeachment, which he only avoided by resigning the presidency, Gerald Ford said nothing because Gerald Ford knew that when he eventually took over the presidency, he didn’t want the stain of Nixon on him. And so, J.D. Vance is silent tonight.

But what is J.D. Vance supposed to say tonight when he reads an email written by Jeffrey Epstein during the Trump presidency in 2019, six months before Jeffrey Epstein’s second arrest saying, quote, of course he knew about the girls, meaning Donald Trump. Donald Trump has always denied any involvement in or knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking and raping of children.

Watch above via MSNBC’s The Last Word.