BOMBSHELL: Trump CONFRONTED on his corruption TO HIS FACE on air

[0:00] Here's what I want to understand. [0:01] So your son manages or helps manage a cryptocurrency company called World Liberty Financial. [0:08] Which son are we talking about? [0:10] You are a co-owner of that company. [0:12] That's correct. [0:13] Right? [0:14] That's correct. [0:15] Right? [0:16] This company is also partially owned by investors connected to the government of the United [0:20] Arab Emirates. [0:21] I think if I told you that story and it was about the Biden family, if I said Joe Biden [0:26] is the part owner of a company and it has all of these investments from the Middle East, [0:32] you would say that sounds corrupt, right? [0:34] Well, he did have a lot of different things. [0:36] Sure, but you. [0:37] But here's the difference. [0:38] But why is it different for you? [0:39] Well, here's what I'll tell you why. [0:41] Because I know nothing about it. [0:42] But why do you need... [0:43] I made a lot of money before. [0:44] But then why do you need the money? [0:45] Why not just divest? [0:46] Walk away? [0:47] I do. [0:48] Look. [0:49] But no, you didn't. [0:50] Most of my money is given to the biggest firms on Wall Street to invest. [0:56] Your index funds. [0:57] Yeah. [0:58] So it came out that I traded like 40,000 stocks. [1:02] So among the stocks would be like, they'd have a tiny little amount. [1:06] It's billions of dollars. [1:07] Right. [1:08] It's billions. [1:09] I understand that. [1:10] I have no idea. [1:11] But companies that are invested in by people in foreign countries, it seems like you could [1:15] just walk away from that and then, you know, and then you would not be accused of corruption. [1:20] I have. [1:21] But you have sons where they go around and they build buildings. [1:24] That's what they do. [1:25] I did long before I became president. [1:27] I did it better than anybody. [1:29] I was very good at real estate. [1:30] I made a lot of money. [1:32] But I have a company. [1:33] My sons are in the company. [1:35] It's hard to say to them, don't do anything anymore for four years because I'm president. [1:40] It's really good. [1:41] But you could divest from the company yourself and let them do whatever they want. [1:45] That's all. [1:46] You're not like sitting in the Oval Office thinking, thank God I have that 50 million [1:50] in World Liberty Financial. [1:51] You could divest from cash. [1:52] So I took a lot of heat because I think they traded like 50,000 stock because that's what [1:58] they do. [1:59] It's all computer generated. [2:00] I have no idea what the hell they're buying. [2:03] Do you think the people who are investing in the company that you co-own with your sons, [2:09] who are coming from foreign countries who want things from your government, don't you [2:13] think they think that they are buying influence? [2:15] I don't know. [2:16] But that's true. [2:17] Look, every president has a problem. [2:20] You have people and they work for you. [2:23] And guys like you cover them and you do profiles on them and they become like everybody thinks [2:27] that Trump loves them and everything else, which in some cases is true and some cases [2:32] are not. [2:33] This is true for every president. [2:34] True. [2:35] Going back to George Washington. [2:36] Every president has not owned a cryptocurrency company, however. [2:39] But they own something, whatever crypto was at the time, okay? [2:42] You know, there's crypto and before that there was oil and there, okay. [2:46] And every president has had this problem. [2:48] So you have a guy, a trusted aide, everything's good. [2:51] And then the trusted aide says, sir, I love you so much and I'll be leaving. [2:55] I said, well, good luck. [2:57] No matter what they do, there's a conflict because the president is all encompassing, [3:01] right? [3:03] And this is not me. [3:05] Every president that there's ever been, they have people, many people. [3:09] I watch it all the time. [3:10] Every time you have a president, their top people, sometimes they stay. [3:13] I mean, I have some that will stay right till the last day. [3:16] But after they leave, they go crazy. [3:19] They go crazy. [3:20] It's true for every president. [3:22] Sometimes they'll leave- [3:23] I feel like there have been more people doing things like that while serving in the administration. [3:28] But listen- [3:29] I'm a bigger name than other presidents, whether we like it or not. [3:32] That was Trump on 60 Minutes trying to explain how the standard that he and Republicans applied [3:37] to Biden somehow doesn't apply to himself. [3:40] Now, this is a guy who spent years, years telling the American people that the Biden family [3:45] was a criminal enterprise. [3:46] Here's what he said at a rally in South Carolina. [3:49] He promised to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bidens. [3:54] When we win the election a little more than a year from now, I will appoint a real special [4:01] prosecutor to expose the monumental corruption of the Biden crime family once and for all. [4:10] So he calls Joe Biden the most corrupt president in American history. [4:14] And when a journalist asks him point blank why the same exact standard wouldn't apply [4:18] to him, he couldn't say. [4:21] A quick note here to say that at a time when so many legacy media outlets are proving themselves [4:25] to be tools of this administration, I have committed to speaking up and fighting back. [4:29] To elevate my voice in this ecosystem, please subscribe. [4:32] It's completely free to do so, but a great way to amplify my message and to continue holding [4:36] this corrupt Republican Party to account. [4:38] Just hit the subscribe button. [4:40] Thanks so much. [4:41] Now, as far as Biden is concerned, House Republicans spent years investigating them. [4:44] And according to the report that they put out, Hunter Biden did trade on his name. [4:48] But according to The Hill, the report does not show President Biden directly received [4:52] any money from his family's business deals or prove he changed any U.S. policies to aid his [4:57] family. [4:59] And despite the report's fiery language, it also stopped short of recommending impeachment [5:02] articles or calling for a vote on impeachment, a nod to diminishing GOP support for the probe. [5:08] Now compare that to Donald Trump. [5:10] Trump has raked in more than a billion dollars from the crypto businesses that he and his [5:13] sons launched shortly before he was sworn into office. [5:16] Trump's net worth has grown by about $3 billion during his term. [5:20] A company tied to the United Arab Emirates National Security Advisor bought nearly half of World [5:25] Liberty Financial, the Trump family's crypto company, for $500 million. [5:30] And Democrats are asking questions about the pardon of a Binance co-founder who helped the [5:34] Trump family launch a stablecoin. [5:36] House oversight Democrats say that companies tied to Trump's sons have collected more than [5:40] $725 million in government loans, grants and awards since Trump took office. [5:47] Like, just to put this all into perspective of how fucking insane all of that is, while Trump [5:53] tries to wave it all away like this is totally normal, Jimmy Carter put his family peanut farm [5:58] in a blind trust so that he couldn't even know how it was being run specifically to avoid [6:03] even the appearance of a conflict of interest. [6:05] A peanut farm. [6:06] A peanut farm. [6:07] But this guy, Trump, is raking in billions after running an entire ass campaign against [6:13] this exact kind of corruption and he's trying to convince you that it's completely fine. [6:18] Meanwhile, Trump is so disinterested in preventing the optics of corruption that the guy accepted [6:23] a $400 million Boeing 747 from the government of Qatar and spent a billion dollars of our taxpayer [6:30] money retrofitting it and then intends to keep it and his party, by the way, is completely [6:36] content with allowing him to do that. [6:38] He's accepting full-blown planes from foreign governments and pretending that it's no big [6:42] deal. [6:43] So they said to me, we would like to, in effect, we would like to make a gift, you've [6:49] done so many things, and we'd like to make a gift to the Defense Department, which is where [6:55] it's going. [6:56] And they said, well, that's nice. [6:58] Some people say, oh, you shouldn't accept gifts for the country. [7:03] My attitude is, why wouldn't I accept the gift? [7:06] We're giving to everybody else. [7:07] Why wouldn't I accept the gift? [7:08] Because it's going to be a couple of years, I think, before the Boeing's are finished and [7:14] they'll be wonderful when they're finished, but that's a long time. [7:17] That is a textbook violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, and neither Trump [7:21] nor his party gave enough of a shit to lift a finger to stop it. [7:26] In fact, here's one of his responses to the appearance of corruption. [7:29] There's a Forbes story that said that your net worth, maybe it's changed with the stock [7:34] market recently, but your net worth went up by $3 billion. [7:37] Well, so did everyone. [7:38] Since you returned to... [7:39] Okay, you ready? [7:40] So here's... [7:41] Everyone's... [7:42] My net worth did not go up by $3 billion. [7:43] Well, you should have had stock. [7:44] For the record. [7:45] For the record. [7:46] I should have... [7:47] You should have had stock. [7:48] I should have had stock. [7:49] Excuse me. [7:50] So... [7:51] How did it go up by $3 billion? [7:52] Well, let me explain. [7:53] I devote almost no time to my net worth. [7:56] I don't care. [7:57] I have a lot of money, and far more than I ever thought I'd have. [8:01] And I guess it's gone up. [8:03] I don't even know. [8:04] I have a son who's a very straight, good guy. [8:09] He watches over money. [8:11] I don't even talk to him about it. [8:12] He watches. [8:13] He gives... [8:14] They gave my money. [8:15] I have a lot of cash. [8:16] I've had a lot of cash long before I came in here. [8:18] I don't take a salary, you know? [8:20] See that, America? [8:21] If you're wondering why you all didn't make $3 billion, you should have bought stock. [8:26] So no, this does not pass the smell test, and you don't have to take my word for it. [8:30] The American people obviously smelled it. [8:32] In the AP voter roll of more than 100,000 voters, roughly half said government corruption [8:37] was crucial to their vote for Congress, and most of them voted Democrat. [8:41] Surprise, surprise. [8:42] They looked at the crypto, and the foreign money, and the planes, and the gold-plated Oval [8:46] Office, and they decided that they had had enough. [8:49] And what did Republicans in Congress do? [8:51] How all of this was happening? [8:53] Nothing. [8:54] Not a hearing. [8:55] Not a subpoena. [8:56] Not a strongly worded letter. [8:57] They were all too collectively chicken shit to lift a finger to stop him. [9:01] And now that they've lost the House, the Senate, and they've likely decimated their [9:05] ability to cobble together a winning coalition for years to come, suddenly they're rediscovering [9:10] that maybe they should have done something about it. [9:12] I hope it was worth it. [9:14] Which brings me to an opportunity for them. [9:17] Robert Garcia, the incoming Oversight Committee Chair, says that Trump family corruption [9:21] is the top priority and that subpoenas could begin on day one. [9:25] We've got four major areas. [9:26] The first is taking on the Trump crime family. [9:29] Whether that is Don Jr.'s Red Wedding, him sitting on boards that is getting contracts [9:33] from the Pentagon, Jared Kushner's two billion from the Saudis, Trump's own crypto scheme, [9:39] the stock trail. [9:40] All of the all of the corruption of Donald Trump and his family. [9:45] That's job number one. [9:46] So Republicans now have a second chance. [9:49] They'll be able to show the American people that they've learned their lesson. [9:53] They could support these investigations. [9:54] They could say to the American people that they want to know where Trump's money is coming [9:58] from. [9:59] They could scrounge back some modicum of credibility. [10:03] Although knowing the Republicans, I'm not holding my breath. [10:05] Before you go, one quick request. [10:11] It's become clear to me that this White House is dead set on preventing me from reaching [10:15] any audience. [10:16] Trump's decision to put me as the first name on his enemies list is a testament to that. [10:20] But it didn't quiet down then and I won't do it now. [10:23] So please do me a favor and subscribe to this channel, hit the notification bell to be alerted [10:27] when I post new content, and tune in when I publish videos so that they get picked up [10:31] in the algorithm. [10:32] The link to subscribe is right here on the screen. [10:34] And together let's make sure that we send a message to this administration that all they're [10:38] doing by attacking me and independent media is making our platforms all the more powerful. [10:42] Thanks.