Warning flags about the Trump administration and alleged corruption
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
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Like the disclosure of thousands of stock trades, being granted immunity from IRS audits, and the DOJ's nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.
These actions have raised questions from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
Michael Waldman, president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, a non-partisan legal think tank, says these actions amount to "corruption in plain sight."
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| 0:00.0 | It's consider this, where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, warning flags about the Trump |
| 0:08.2 | administration and alleged corruption, like the disclosure of thousands of stock trades, being granted |
| 0:15.0 | immunity from IRS audits, and the administration's new $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund. Some lawmakers say it's |
| 0:25.0 | bad policy. Here's Republican Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina speaking to Spectrum News on |
| 0:30.9 | Capitol Hill Thursday about the fund. I'm not going to be an attorney and judge. It's |
| 0:35.5 | legality, but I think it's stupid on stilts. |
| 0:38.4 | Others, like Democratic Senator, Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan, had this to say. |
| 0:42.7 | The president has managed to take this sort of what I call high-level corruption to a new level. |
| 0:49.0 | High-level corruption to a new level. Consider this. President Trump's recent moves are prompting questions, |
| 0:56.3 | including from some within his own party, about whether the president is bending American democracy |
| 1:03.1 | to empower himself and his family. Where and how to draw the line. |
| 1:12.7 | From NPR, I'm Mary Louise Kelly. |
| 1:18.8 | It's consider this from NPR. |
| 1:25.3 | In recent days, the news has been filled with some eyebrow-raising choices by the Trump administration. |
| 1:31.1 | President Trump is defending a new nearly $1.8 billion fund designed to help people, he says, were unfairly targeted by the justice system. |
| 1:40.5 | New financial disclosure forms show President Trump made thousands of stock trades during the first few months of the year, including companies affected by his policies. |
| 1:47.9 | The U.S. is, quote, forever barred and precluded from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump organization's current tax issues. |
| 1:55.6 | All right. So a sampling of a few of the matters making headlines. |
| 1:59.6 | The leader of one prominent, nonpartisan think tank, |
| 2:03.3 | says these moves amount to quote, epic corruption in plain sight. Michael Waldman is president and |
| 2:10.2 | CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice. Michael Waldman, welcome. Great to be with you. |
| 2:14.8 | So you have written a piece with that headline, Epic |
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