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During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) accused President Trump of engaging in corruption.
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00:00And finally, as this all happens, as Americans pay out of pocket, as chaos keeps Americans distracted day after day after day.
00:12What's happening here in Washington with all this cost increase happening, with all this chaos?
00:20In addition, unfortunately, it's unprecedented corruption.
00:24Never in our lifetimes have we seen a president use the levers of power so transparently to personally enrich himself and his inner circle.
00:35That never happened in America.
00:38Presidents, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Conservatives, Liberals, they respected the fact that their office being in high office was a guardianship.
00:46Not to grab and reach and make money and enrich themselves.
00:54But that's what Trump is doing regularly.
00:57In the past few months, Donald Trump accepted a luxury plane from Qatar to use as Air Force One.
01:04And we have no clue, no clue, as how many hundreds of millions or more in taxpayer dollars will be spent in renovations.
01:14You have to renovate it because there could be listening devices and even the little nails and screws in those planes.
01:20So you've got to almost take it apart and put it back together.
01:24So Donald Trump can have this plane.
01:26And the way the deal works, after he leaves office, it goes to his presidential library.
01:30Can you imagine a gift like that to a sitting president from a country we have to deal with and Qatar where we've had good and bad relations with all the time?
01:39And then that's not all.
01:43He turned the South Lawn of the White House into a Tesla dealership when he was friendly with Musk.
01:50His family is getting rich off crypto schemes, selling access to the White House for profit, personal profit.
01:57But, truly, the Trump administration is rampant self-dealing at an unprecedented scale.
02:05And that turns the stomachs of Americans who believe we're better than that.
02:10And there are many millions of us who believe that.
02:13We are better than what Donald Trump is doing.

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