Revealed: Trump biographer discloses threat ex-president uses when he doesn't get his way

Former President Donald Trump has a particular threatening comment that he always falls back on when he senses he's no longer able to game the system, biographer Tim O'Brien told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Wednesday evening.

This comes as the former president faces a mounting pile of legal cases, both civil and criminal, few of which appear to be going his way.

"Trump was supposed to testify in his other case he's freaking out about, the money case in ... New York," said Reid. "He's not going to testify anymore because the rules said he couldn't go and do a political speech and he couldn't yell at the clerk. And so, he's like, no. I'm not — he was never going to testify. Let's just be clear."

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"Well, the only reason he was there was to engage in political theater," said O'Brien, to Reid's concurrence. "He doesn't know anything about the court processes work."

"Yesterday after the hearing, he said there's 'bedlam' if these courts prosecute me, there will be bedlam," O'Brien continued. "He has used that word throughout his whole career any time the system comes at him in a way he doesn't like. When [former New York City Mayor] Ed Koch refused to zone a piece of property Trump wanted on the West Side, he said, there's bedlam in New York, I couldn't get zoned."

"He has no sense of proportion," O'Brien added. "And he's got no sense of civility or the rule of law. So he'll simply say, it's chaos because I'm not getting what I want."

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