Senator Elizabeth Warren
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But let's just do the basics.
And if we still have a problem, we can always come back and tighten those up.
And the basics are get Congress, and I want to be clear for me, get Congress to
get every head of every agency, get everybody who is named to the president's cabinet or deputies, these people in policymaking decisions, and, drumroll please, the president of the United States, all out of the business of trying to make money personally at the same time that they are serving in public office.
And it's a no brainer.
Yep.
Broadly held.
S&P 500.
That's right.
S&P 500.
But we've seen this on both sides of the aisle, though.
That's been interesting in this.
There are people who want to see the law go in place on both sides, and there are people who are resistant.
And that's been a hard part about this.
And part of what's made it harder has been Donald Trump.
And whether you want to go into the politics or not, I'll just start with the opportunities here for buying, selling and trading, particularly in crypto, has given Donald Trump the position in effect of
of being able to take what sure look like bribes out in public.
Someone just goes out and buys $400 million worth of his crypto coin.
He knows that, boosts the price up, and then asks for a presidential pardon or asks for better treatment for your country on a tariff deal or asks for approval of a merger.
All those things that it becomes a way to influence the decisions that the person in power, who's supposed to be working on behalf of the American people, but to influence those decisions to help