Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Katty Kay

👤 Speaker
2096 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

say or the justice department say it's dropping all suits against trump and his kids and it looks like this is there's some debate about it but it looks like it's in perpetuity how is that possible can't i get that deal can i just never be investigated by the tax authorities in perpetuity i want a deal like that is there a deal for them and a different deal for us

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

Existing.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

But there's been questions about that already, about whether that's really the case.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

I mean, that's what it said.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

That's what the addendum signed by Todd Blanche said.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

The government would be forever barred and precluded.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

Anyway, look, here's what a lawyer sent me this morning.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

It's horrifying.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

It's corrupt to the core.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

This is from a lawyer, a conservative lawyer who sent me this.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

It might be one of these things where Trump is exploiting legal loopholes to do something no one thought any president would do, and it might be illegal.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

I think it's again, no one really thinks that he has the shamelessness to do this stuff and then he does it.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

Okay.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

I think this is a very important moment.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

I think it's one of those moments we're going to look back at and think this redefined the nature of the Trump presidency today.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

and what Trump tried to do to government and how he tried to rewrite history.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

And just remember that day on January the 7th, when Lindsey Graham, now the president's most stalwart ally, said, I'm getting off the Trump train.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

It's been a great ride, but enough is enough.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

That was unforgivable.

The Rest Is Politics: US
189. Trump’s Secret Slush Fund: His Most Corrupt Act Yet

And then a few days later, Kevin McCarthy flies down to Mar-a-Lago and welcomes him back into the Republican family.