Lawrence O’Donnell Slams Trump Over 1 Thing ‘The Worst American War Criminals Never Said’

MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday railed against President Donald Trump over his war on Iran and renewed threat to destroy its civilian infrastructure, noting no U.S. war criminal has ever publicly said it would be their “honor” to commit such crimes.

The “Last Word” host was examining a social media post Trump published earlier in the day, in which O’Donnell said the president appeared to show he was “running this war himself.”

“Donald Trump announced, ‘I’m winning a War, BY A LOT, things are going very well,’” noted O’Donnell. “That is Donald Trump’s latest assessment of his war, ‘I’m winning a War.’ But as we know, that assessment is subject to change at any moment and is always false.”

He continued, “It was only yesterday that Donald Trump once again publicly threatened to commit war crimes in Iran, which is in and of itself a war crime, the public threatening of war crimes. Donald Trump said, ‘We’re offering a very fair and responsible DEAL.’”

Trump then went on to threaten Iran with the destruction of their civilian infrastructure, which is a war crime under international law, if they don’t accept his “DEAL.” He warned, “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY,” adding, “it will be my Honor to do what has to be done.”

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“Couple things,” said O’Donnell. “‘It will be my honor’ to commit war crimes is something that the worst American war criminals never said.”

He noted that Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr., who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians “at close-range gunpoint, execution-style — men, women, children, babies, grandparents — never said, ‘It will be my honor to murder Vietnamese babies.’”

Trump previously condemned past administrations for waging costly wars in the Middle East and had vowed to focus on “America First,” only to launch a costly war in the Middle East that has already killed at least 13 U.S. military service members and more than 3,000 Iranians.

“It’s only Donald Trump who thinks threatening war crimes and committing war crimes ‘will be my honor,’” he said, adding that the “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” threat “really has no meaning for a person who has not spent one day of his life as a nice guy.”

Watch the full “Last Word” segment on MS NOW’s YouTube account.

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