Trump Approval Crashes as Prices Surge
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the beat, everyone. We're about to be joined by a Trump White House veteran, |
| 0:04.0 | lawyer Ty Cobb, who has spoken out against this Trump's second term, and we're going to get |
| 0:08.0 | to that ABC News bombshell about what some argue could be funding another insurrection. The report |
| 0:13.8 | is that the Trump DOJ, under control of Donald Trump, may move to settle Trump's lawsuit, |
| 0:20.7 | basically against his own administration, |
| 0:22.5 | the IRS, and that Trump would use, many critics say, abuse this process to try to take over |
| 0:29.8 | a billion dollars from taxpayers and use it to give to his MAGA allies, including people who faced conviction for crimes against the United States. |
| 0:43.3 | That corruption is not an occasional weekend excursion for them. Corruption is all they do. |
| 0:50.6 | First, it's probably illegal. Secondly, it's outrageous. And finally, it's corrupt. |
| 0:56.3 | It's like watching the Sopranos and waking up and what is the scam of the day. |
| 1:04.0 | Democrats wasting no time there being very aggressive, you'll notice different than what we |
| 1:07.8 | see sometimes in the first term, where they say, well, this is a report, |
| 1:11.7 | or it hasn't happened yet, or yada, yada here. They've seen the movie enough times, and while it |
| 1:16.8 | might have seemed once unthinkable that a sitting president would want to hand out your taxpayer |
| 1:21.2 | money, if you're watching this in the U.S., and give it to convicts convicted of crimes against the U.S. I mean, giving it to any convicts would |
| 1:29.5 | seem odd by itself. But specifically those who attacked the United States Congress and attacked |
| 1:34.5 | police and put January 6th forever in infamy in American history that you would want to fund and |
| 1:40.3 | pay them, which raises questions of why. I'll show you what Rathkin says, because it is |
| 1:44.4 | chilling. Another watchdog group says it's like walking to Fort Knox and stealing the gold, |
| 1:49.2 | taking the gold. The potential beneficiaries here include the people charged and many convicted |
| 1:55.2 | for the Jan 6 attack. That includes people like this. |
| 2:09.3 | Nothing about a traitor and he deserves to burn with the rest of them. |
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