MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell and Andrew Weissmann marveled on the “stupidity” of Donald Trump after the previous president claimed he has nearly $500 million in funds whereas he’s concurrently telling a courtroom he can not pay virtually $500 million.

Trump is making an attempt to appeal a $454 million civil fraud judgment, but his legal professionals told a New York appellate courtroom this week that they’ve been unable to find an establishment keen to underwrite a bond for that quantity. If he does not submit the bond by using Monday’s closing date, the New York lawyer basic may start seizing his assets.

In a put up on Truth Social on Friday morning, Trump claimed he has “ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH, A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WHICH I INTENDED TO USE IN MY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT.”

Appearing on Friday’s variation of The Last Phrase, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explained why the post may be tricky for Trump.

“I might also simply level out the stupidity of Donald Trump announcing lately that he if truth be told has the cash,” Weissmann mentioned. “He has pending earlier than the courtroom an utility where the applying to the court docket is, ‘Please lower the bond quantity as a result of I can’t pay it.’ And at the same time, he has mentioned, ‘I can pay it.’ So, simply put your self in the shoes of the judges who’ve that software ahead of them. Do you suppose they’d furnish that based on the defendant now saying, ‘Oh, I can if truth be told pay it’? I mean, come what may, any person is lying about that.”

O’Donnell held nothing again in his reply.

“Yeah, I’ve never viewed a stupider litigant in court docket on an extraordinarily constant basis.”

Weissmann’s view was echoed previous in the day on CNN through prison analyst Nick Akerman, who referred to as it “the dumbest factor [Trump] could have probably carried out.”

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