Amanda Carpenter
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first heard Jan 2025
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baby Trump hiding. But I don't know, a lot of layers to the story. Amanda, what was your reaction? Yeah, you are right. There's a lot of layers to the story. Number one, the idea of using the press as a decoy. But what strikes me as the most important is how badly is this war going, right? Like Secret Service doesn't take the president off a plane for no reason, right?
He hid in a catering cart, which is embarrassing. This isn't like Taylor Swift going underneath the stage and trying to hide from fans. Well, I learned from my text change yesterday, apparently she sometimes leave her house hidden in a luggage cart. That's something that she did. I received a text like, this is a Taylor Swift ass move. I don't follow all of her decoys, but yeah. Yeah, but that's fun because she's evading fans. This is not fun because Trump, our president, is evading assassination attempts.
So that seems extremely serious. And I just look at what's going on and how they downplay the deaths, the stories last week about how we don't know how many munitions we have at hand because apparently people are afraid to tell him that we are running low. You look at the
attack where they tested the water sources in Minnesota and Trump tried to cover it up and somehow blame Tim Walz for attacking his own water supply, which doesn't even make sense. And so what I'm most concerned about is what is the straight story about our status with this war? I think we can all agree it's not going well. Um,
We appear to not be accomplishing the goals that they set out. The Trump sons are making billions off it in these shady contracts. But actually, what does it mean for our national defense and the safety and security of the president? It seems to me not good if he had to go into a catering cart and hide from people and keep this information from the public for, I don't know, has it been two or three weeks?
The Iranian stuffed our president in a catering cart by his own free will. He went in there willingly to hide. Went into the locker himself. He was like, I don't want the bullies to stuff me in the locker, so I'm just going to go into the locker and hide by myself. Maybe they lured him in there with a couple Diet Cokes and a cheeseburger to sweeten the deal. But I also wonder how much...
Did the Qatari plane of it all make this a factor? I mean, we know that the plane that the president travels on is a target. That plane that he chose to fly on originally was not safe. I think there's a lot more to this story. You don't force a president off two planes now. His Qatari plane, Air Force One, and stuff them in a catering cart for no reason.
But the biggest point is that Iran is a bigger threat than we knew. I mean, obviously, we know there's been assassination attempts, not only on Trump, but on Bolton, Mike Pompeo, etc. I mean, when you start to put all these points together, along with the fact that Iran has terrorist cells around the world...
It's bad. Yeah, and I think it argues for the case why Congress does need to take a more assertive role. I mean, this is much different than previous presidents who have bungled wars before. We've been there. We've seen it. But this administration is different because he has screened people for loyalty and not expertise. I mean, the stories last week where Trump is saying that, whether you believe him because it's hard to tell who's telling the truth, that he was misled about how many munitions we have at our disposal, right?
You know, you hire messengers to come in the first Trump administration, people that would give it to him straight. But you keep shooting the messengers. You run out of people who will tell you the truth. So now he has surrounded himself with people who blow smoke up his ass like Hegseth. You know, you can go down the line. And our national security really does depend on like simple ability. Can people say two plus two bombs equals four? We have four left. No, they can't. They say things are going great. We have a million. Don't worry about it.
And now I do feel like we're getting ourselves into a corner or a hot dog cart.
I think it's obvious we're seeing new forms of corruption coming out of the White House that people could not anticipate. And it largely I mean, you can look at his financial disclosures where he has admitted outright that he made two point two billion dollars as president in 2025. And if you look at the buckets of places where the corruption has unfurled, I think there's five large ones.
It's no bid and shady contracts, a lot of which the Trump sons are benefiting from when it comes to defense intent contracts, cryptocurrency, the slush funds and settlements that they are attempting to set up, the foreign gifts that he's being given, which are a way for foreign countries to peddle influence, and all the pay for play schemes, whether that's the pardons, the lobbying business that's cropped up around that,
the true social access that he is creating a new business around. And so when you think down the road about how, if we did elect a new Congress or administration who was interested in accountability and putting an end to this kind of corruption, what could you do that's realistic and meaningful?
Also knowing that he's going to continue to abuse the pardon power. If you look at the reporting from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, I mean, they when they speak in interviews, I know they spoke to you about this. They really emphasize that Donald Trump is serious at looking at mass pardons once he's on his way out of office. They've talked about the Wall Street Journal has reported him giving pardons to anyone within 250 feet of the Oval Office.
So I think you have to take this seriously. So how do you how do you pursue pardon proof accountability? And that leads to a strategy of like, OK, when you look at the corruption that's happening, there's always two sides. Donald Trump can put a big for sale sign outside the White House, but all these people are lining up to get in.
And so if they are using this money to engage in some kind of unlawful activity, whether that's bribery, extortion, pay-to-play, there are pardon-proof laws on the books. It's called disgorgement, which is a gross, terrible word. Just take it out of your mind. But it just means— Disgorgement? Disgorgement. Civil disgorgement laws. In plain English, that means we can get the money— I like it. It's weird enough for me to remember. It means get the money back. If you profit from ill-gotten gains—
There are ways to get the money back that are pardon proof. And the standard for proving that those are ill-gotten gains is not quite as high as criminality.
So this is kind of like when OJ got off and Ron Goldman's family still got paid. Yeah. It's like we're going through the civil courts now. Exactly. Exactly. And so there's got to be a lot of mapping for what those ill-gotten gains could be. But I think there's a lot of great reporting, especially when it comes to crypto and the pay-for-play elements, where I think anybody that's interested in oversight has a lot of strings to pick up and follow. And so if
There was a Democratic Congress that was interested in accountability. You know, there could be plans to audit the White House and find out where this money is going, what it is buying and who is doing it, because you have to look at the actors on the other side of this. I know we can talk about and complain about Trump all that we can, but it takes two people to bribe or extort or corrupt the economy and our government.
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