Amy McGrath
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We do, and it's going to be quite a sight to see these massive pictures that are already of Donald Trump that are up in places like Washington, D.C., being torn down and the names coming off of these buildings because it will happen.
It will happen.
It will.
We do things a certain way here in the United States, and this ain't the way.
This ain't the way.
So last week, I think, the Financial Times β actually, just a couple days ago, the Financial Times reported that a broker for the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who you and I both know β
fairly well, trying to make a large investment in a major defense company in the lead up to the war in Iran.
So I just want to talk to you about how insanely crazy this is.
This is a guy who is the secretary of defense, and he is trying to make he's trying to play the stock market, making a multimillion dollar investment.
in defense contractors that he knows are going to be having a boom because of a war that he knows is going to happen.
And apparently the only reason it was stopped was because his stockbroker tried to do this, but the account wasn't ready yet.
So in other words, the account that he wanted to buy wasn't ready for somebody to actually go buy it yet.
That was the only reason it was stopped.
It wasn't stopped because of ethics, right?
Yeah, and I've said many times that Congress needs to pass a law banning members of Congress from stock trading.
But it's beyond this.
It's beyond Congress.
The cabinet members that need to be banned from stock.
I mean, you're either a cabinet member, you know, you're either the head of our national security, head of our director of national intelligence.