Hey, this is Henry Melcher. I am a supervising producer at Late Night and I'm Sal Gentsiel.

I'm the closer look supervising writer. This is Late Night Cram. And on this episode,

we talk to Sheila Cremholz, who's the executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics

and OpenSecrets.org, and her organization covers corruption in DC. And obviously, there has been

corruption in Washington since the beginning of time. But there is a lot more corruption right now,

a lot more blatant corruption going on with the Trump administration. So we talked to her about

the work she's doing with her organizations. And she kind of gives us an explainer on what we're

seeing and the consequences of it. Yeah. So Trump has been a lot more ostentatious, very obviously,

a lot more brazen with his corruption. Obviously, the fact that he's made no attempt whatsoever to

untether himself from his family business. And in particular, we talk today about influence

peddling. So there's a couple of different categories of the kinds of corruption that Trump is

sort of flagrantly showing off in DC. For one thing, he's literally just making money at his

businesses by being president of the United States. He takes all these trips to his businesses and

resorts and so forth. And all this advertising when he was in Ireland, literally the resort that he

stayed at made like advertising videos of him there on official state business. He's there on an

official state trip. And we as the United States taxpayers paid for that, which feels great.

Feels awesome. It's so nice to give back. And it's really charitable giving it away. You can write

it off. Yeah. So just know that we can collectively write off our taxes. We can write off our taxes

because they are charitable donations to the Trump organizations. Yes. So there's the fact that he's

literally just making money himself by staying at these places, not only in the advertising of them

and making membership more valuable, but also quite literally in the fact that we have to pay for

the infrastructure of the president of the United States for his staffers and aides and so forth to

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