NYT Reporter: Trump was ‘desperate’ to create ‘the illusion he could win’
Katie Benner, Justice Reporter for the New York Times, joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the latest on Donald Trump’s attempted effort to replace the Acting Attorney General with a loyalist who supported unfounded claims of election fraud. Benner says it’s one of many acts of “desperation” in the final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency that showed he “would do anything to find voter fraud.”
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