Trump blasted as 'apotheosis of corruption' by The Weeknight for profiting in the White House

[0:00] Donald Trump really wants you to know how rich he is don't take my word for it though in a new [0:05] interview with CNBC Trump also said he had no influence on the billions of dollars he's taken [0:10] in since returning to the White House I've made a tremendous amount of money more than I would have [0:17] ever thought I would have made and I let people invest it I don't even speak to I don't even know [0:22] who they are but it's given to big firms like that are on your show all the time my son Eric handles [0:29] it I don't talk to him about things such as this I think I'd be allowed to I'm not sure even what [0:34] the status is but I don't joining us now is Cornell Belcher he's a poster democratic strategist and an [0:44] MS now political analyst my tone wasn't for Cornell it was for that that clip so so important important [0:50] Donald Trump dissection the point came out you're like Leonardo DiCaprio I know you've got to listen [0:59] to the man because he can't help himself he will always tell always tell you what he's doing [1:04] in the frame of what he's not doing or what he can't do so when he sits there Cornell and says [1:13] that my son Eric is doing all this I don't talk to him I'm not supposed to but I think I I think I [1:19] could tells you he's talking to him Donald Trump doesn't or operate blind people and that's that's [1:30] the storyline here that I it just still boggles my mind that even the people who've covered him [1:35] don't really expose and dissect that much when he's sitting there telling people that oh you know [1:44] y'all making money right because I'm making money he knows they ain't making money right [1:50] but he does know he is yes him and his family is making an awful lot of money so much so that you [1:56] you do have and I haven't this hasn't come up in and in folks group work in a while but but [2:02] corruption outside of Louisiana and but corruption is actually on the top of people's minds right now [2:09] because of what they're seeing coming out of Washington it there is a there was a it was a slow [2:14] boil but I think we're at the point now especially when he's flying over with the Qataris air airplane I [2:20] think we're at the point now where it it is beginning to sort of build up and is rising to [2:24] the top and Americans are saying corruption this is corrupt you know it's interesting uh we had some [2:33] original reporting from our MS now Hill team that talked about how America 250 was set up was a [2:39] bipartisan thing Simone's benched that a bunch and then Trump came in with freedom 250 and just pulled [2:43] the rug right out underneath that a lot of people gave to the wrong thing that could be corrupt but [2:48] there is a story I wanted to talk about because I had it out on social media and people responded in [2:54] a way that I was not expecting and that's about eggs and you know this from the Biden administration [2:58] okay there is a recent settlement that just happened okay egg producers will pay 3.3 million and donate [3:04] 53 million eggs to settle price fixing claims the U.S. Justice Department in 17 states reached [3:08] settlement agreements with three major egg producers this week to resolve allegations the [3:12] companies illegally colluded for years to raise prices including when the costs soared to record highs [3:17] last year now Simone had to answer a bunch of questions about the price of eggs well the eggs [3:23] got high after I left but I would say Kamala Harris talked about this people said she was the communist [3:27] correct so when you see something like that and you see the degree to which the media ran with that [3:35] mainstream media by the way ran with the egg prices yes and I don't think the Democrats ever were [3:40] able to recover from that it was just one of these things which is they did that they did that they [3:44] made the little stickers of Joe Biden pointing about the eggs when you see where we are now do [3:50] you think that the Democratic Party realizes they have to push back against those things right away [3:54] well I hope the Democratic Party thinks they have to push back on those things right away [3:58] but I'm actually going to take it a step a step and the corruption I'm going to take a step further [4:04] I'm going to pivot from that and take a step further you want to know why so many Americans [4:09] particularly young Americans are saying the hell with capitalism and embracing socialism it's because [4:18] of stories like that yeah because stories like that about how corrupt and rigged the system is [4:22] and how the system is consistently not working for these people and that and you know what those [4:27] young people aren't completely crazy when you have stories like this where they're colluding to raise [4:33] prices and gouge people and then we wonder why so many young people are upset about capitalism [4:37] about big business they have a right to be upset with capitalism and big business if this is how [4:42] it's going to operate very much so and look I mean not to go back but this was a point that [4:49] some Democrats did talk about Elizabeth Warren talked about this Kamala Harris it was a plank in her [4:54] platform a hundred-day platform that people said it was communism they said oh she's going after [5:00] companies oh she doesn't like business when the reality was the companies were and still are [5:05] ripping people off in this country what is showing up in the focus groups because you said the [5:10] corruption wasn't necessarily showing up in a while outside Louisiana but no but Louisiana is all [5:16] but what I'm saying is is you do see it now and that's the corruption idea of the system is corrupt [5:23] and the system is rigged is now it's not a crazy idea anymore like people are beginning to think that [5:31] the system really is rigged I'm actually beginning to think that the system is is is is is I mean if [5:37] the president's making 2.2 billion dollars the the eggs were it was collusion it was massive collusion [5:44] that came right after COVID so I think that I agree with you 100 percent I think you're starting to see [5:50] the energy and a candidate who can harness that because Donald Trump is the apotheosis of corruption [5:55] he is sitting there making money off of your backs he is completely ripping taxpayers off and do you [6:02] think that his Justice Department is in any way really going after companies that hard I'll give him [6:06] this one they got the egg guys a few years too late okay but deregulation that's the name of his game [6:12] damn Luke just hit us with apotheosis I'm just sitting here right now this brother is on point [6:20] supreme or utmost example of [6:25] shout out to Fred Chandler my eighth grade teacher for doing that [6:30] all right so we've now we've now layered the the cake on the table with a lot of different kind of [6:41] replacing and my my question is um the consumers of this cake that and that cake being our economy [6:50] that cake being capitalism that cake being all the little pieces and as they bite into that cake they're [6:56] finding chunks of things oh they hurt their gum corruption oh they hurt their gum can't pay for this [7:03] oh because the system that made the cake right has made a bad cake question then [7:11] becomes what does this generation that's assuming power from the mayoralty of new york to the new members of congress who will likely be there this fall or beginning of next year to the next generation of governors because the governors that we have now are going to be old in comparison to the folks who are going to be coming online beginning in 28 and so forth how do they remake that cake because at the end of the day you look at the ingredient ingredients of socialism and the [7:39] ingredient ingredients of socialism as it plays out economically in other parts of the world [7:44] how is that going to be different here well here's how you got to make a better cake so what do you do with the ingredients you got i don't i don't well i'm going to reject the idea that we're going to make the cake because historically we've never made this cake in in america [7:57] there's a lot of there's a lot of people in academic spaces who would argue we've never seen a true socialist movement like we saw in parts of europe uh in the scandinavia [8:06] have we seen true capitalism in the state and scandinavia in scandinavian countries i would argue that's true capitalism in scandinavian countries because of this [8:13] because in the end but what about those brown people who are coming over borders [8:19] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:20] come on [8:21] come on [8:21] 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