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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Republicans finally passed Donald Trump's what I'm going to call a big old nasty bill to give tax breaks to millionaires while kicking millions off their health insurance. |
0:09.0 | Great work, everyone. I mean, congrats to all involved, I guess. This is your signature accomplishment. |
0:15.0 | But if you're the president, and this, he was definitely involved in this one quite a bit, how do you celebrate the first step in your signature legislative agenda? |
0:23.6 | Well, we were just talking about this too, but basically he ended tonight with a big fancy dinner. |
0:29.6 | When were rich people all coughed up money to make his family richer, |
0:33.6 | all for the privilege of getting access to him, the sitting president of |
0:38.9 | the United States. |
0:40.5 | Now, I'm referencing, of course, the fact that tonight Donald Trump spent the evening |
0:44.2 | whining and dining with the top investors in his family's meme coin, a type of cryptocurrency, |
0:49.3 | of course. |
0:50.3 | Trump's family business basically auctioned off access to the president by promising the top 220 purchasers of his coin a seat at his crypto gala, |
0:59.2 | the one that was held in the last couple of hours just tonight, |
1:02.5 | at his golf club, of course, in Washington, D.C. |
1:05.8 | Now, the top 25 coin purchasers of that 220 got even more access to Trump. |
1:11.3 | They were invited to an exclusive VIP cocktail reception before the dinner. |
1:16.5 | So just to be clear here, I mean, these crypto investors literally bought access to Donald |
1:20.5 | Trump by enriching his family. |
1:23.2 | And the more money they paid, the more access they got. |
1:27.2 | It's basically the definition of an in-your-face blatant, raised in whatever you want to call |
1:32.0 | it pay-to-play scheme. |
1:34.3 | But the White House says, don't worry, because Trump isn't doing any of this as president. |
1:42.5 | This question has been raised with the president. |
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