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The BuzzFeed Revelations on Trump

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Anthony Cormier from BuzzFeed News about the chain of bombshell news stories his team has published this month and the Mueller team’s response to his reporting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

President Trump, furious, the president livid at Democrats for stealing his staffers.

0:04.8

Those are his words. We're talking about staffers who will be working for House Intelligence Committee

0:09.3

Chairman Adam Schiff on investigating the president. On immigration, I will direct the Department

0:17.5

of Labor to investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker.

0:24.0

We will not surrender our Constitution responsibility for oversight. That would make us

0:33.1

delinquent in our duties. Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin. We've often

0:42.1

discussed on this show how the liathon that is this presidency, the li ultra marathon, the

0:48.4

li trothon was inaugurated with Trump's laughable description of the crowds at his inauguration.

0:56.7

Trump even put dear departed Sean Spicer in a kind of headlock and made him say this was the largest

1:04.4

audience to ever witness an inauguration period when it was not. Poor kid Spicer instantly

1:13.3

became a gift and there's no way that after the icebergs melt, Sean Spicer will be remembered by

1:18.8

the beavers who are the sole survivors of the apocalypse as anything but the man who said largest

1:24.2

audience period. Spicer should be said regrets making that easily and immediately falsifiable claim

1:30.0

about empirical reality. But it seems the inauguration didn't just kick off this particular phase of

1:36.4

Trump's lying life. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York subpoenaed the

1:41.7

committee that put together the live in infamy inauguration. This week, that means criminal

1:48.1

investigations into the inauguration's money are ramping up as they should be and with SDNY where any

1:55.3

crimes turned up are not unlike federal crimes, pardonable. Trump's inaugural committee raised an

2:03.2

eye popping $106.7 million. That was double the record set by Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural and

2:12.4

there have been many questions forever about where that money came from and where it went.

2:18.1

Now the scope of documents requested by SDNY and the subject might be described as the largest

2:24.1

subpoenaed cash of documents period. But I haven't checked that out and thus I would never say it.

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