Rep. Greg Landsman
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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But to get exemptions, you got to pay him money, you know, power in terms of the dinner over the weekend where all these people showed up, you know, and gave, you know, I don't know how much money, but it's, you know, hundreds of millions, tens of millions he made. For him.
Almost a half a billion dollars for one dinner that goes to him.
Yeah.
Now, in order to get the money, he needs the power. In order to get the power, he needs attention. And that's what he does. And sometimes cruelty is what gets him attention. And I think the cruelty serves the need for attention, which helps him with power, which ultimately serves his most important goal, which is to make money. And he's been doing this his entire life.
My hope is that at the end of this—
it'll all sort of fall apart the way every one of his businesses has where a bunch of people sue and you know usually was bankers for him uh now i think you just have everyday people who've been ripped off who are going to sue but i just i i think that you know understanding trump through that lens is really important he is uh he's he's a a true grifter and and willing to be as corrupt as humanly possible like i've no one's ever been more corrupt
And he doesn't care because he's going to walk away with billions and billions and billions of dollars.
Yeah, I mean, this is, it's a really good question. The answer is you have to make sure that it's clear that it's coming at an expense to you. And, you know, ultimately people know that, right? The fact that he used the White House over the weekend to have some dinner where a bunch of people gave $300, $400 million to him, that's corrupt.
You're not allowed to use the office for your own personal financial gain. Same with the plane, this bribe plane from Qatar and the Trump coin. I get why people would be like, yeah, but does that really affect me? It seems like it's another world and I don't really understand that world and maybe I give them the benefit of the doubt.
But they do also understand that what they're trying to do is further build on this broken economy where they are shifting wealth away from us, by cutting healthcare and food assistance and other investments in people in our communities in order to pay for another round of tax giveaways to billionaires and big corporate investors, that's outrageous. And that's where people do draw the line.
Fine, if some rich person wants to have dinner with Donald Trump, okay. I mean, obviously,
But they are in this budget and with these cuts, the indiscriminate firing of people, over 100,000 federal employees being indiscriminately let go, what it's doing to services, what they're doing to the Social Security Administration, how that is screwing over seniors, how this budget, that is stabbing them in the front.
And that is a level of corruption that people have struggled to paint Trump or congressional Republicans with. But one of the reasons why I won in 2022 against an incumbent who had been there for 30 years, where I joked that he'd been in Congress for hundreds of years, it was that he was the quintessential swamp animal or creature, that he was swimming, I mean, drowning in corporate PAC money.
And I don't take corporate PAC money. And this guy, he takes all this corporate PAC money from gun manufacturers. And so he's not going to do anything that would make sense, even with police. Even when police say, well, could you at least do red flag laws or could you do this or could you do that? No, no, no. He gets all this money from the gun manufacturers who make billions of dollars.
Is he going to cap the cost of insulin for children, which is my first bill? First bill, my first term, first bill this term. We're going to keep at it until we cap the cost for insulin for everyone? No, because he is swimming in corporate PAC money from the pharmaceutical companies. That's what...
built this you know terrible ridiculous budget bill is corporate PAC money and they're the ones who are getting the benefits that is stabbing you in the front and the American people will hate this and they do they hate this bill it's a terrible bill right and you have some strange bedfellows on this I rarely say good things about Josh Hawley but he's being totally objective about the cuts
He's an actual economic populist. And the party said that they were going to go in that direction. Trump said they were going to go in that direction. This will be a betrayal. I mean, I think people will see the terrorists as a betrayal. I think people will see because that's the kind of corruption, right?
I'm going to try to control the global trade situation so people have to come to me and pay me for exemptions. That's different than a dinner party. Now, all of a sudden, my prices are higher because you want to make money, you know, shaking countries and companies down. That I don't like. You know what I mean? And the corporate PAC staff, these folks are swimming in corporate PAC money.
I mean, this is where, you know, there's a crew of us, a growing number of us, you know, sort of newer members that don't take corporate PAC money.
We don't take our corporate PAC money because we know at the end of the day this is what the American people hate the most is the idea that somehow we represent 750,000 people, yet we would go – they go to Washington and then take the money from these folks and start voting with them and not us. Yeah.
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