Rachel Maddow reads an excerpt from "A Very Stable Genius" by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, in which Donald Trump, apparently not understand how laws are passed in the United States, tries to push his staff to undo the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Aired on 01/20/20.
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Trump Sought To Get Rid Of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Book | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
I cant wait til he goes to that one place FOREVER!
I just hope ya don’t mean Mar-A-Lago. He already tends to stay there for, like, EVER!
Iwon trump 2020:)
Much like when t’rump said if a foreign country offers you help to win an election you should take it.
Dude is getting pretty lazy with his treason these days. 🤔😆😅
@Ash Roskell I AM NOT A CULT, I see angry democrat that bond Together EVERY WHERE , They more of a cult Than Trump Supporters,
@Roger Jones sure sure, what ever you say lemming. 🙄
AND,he could of at least TRIED to do well ….
@Roger Jones how are you not a cult?
The timing of this latest proof of corruption hitting the public awareness: exquisite.
But it’s not. It’s only reaching our ears. Those of us who want to know the truth. Trump’s supporters are not listening.
@Fred A , The trumpkins wouldn’t listen even if Jesus himself came down and told them all the crimes Trump is guilty of. The main thing is that the sane majority of America gets to see and hear the truth – and votes accordingly.
@Citadel of winds “The trumpkins wouldn’t listen even if Jesus himself came down and told them all the crimes Trump is guilty of” . that and more. you could literally give them government documents and they would still call the fact that donald trump defrauded his own charity “fake news”
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2018/attorney-general-underwood-announces-lawsuit-against-donald-j-trump-foundation
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2018/ag-underwood-announces-stipulation-dissolving-trump-foundation-under-judicial
if you are woke stay awake and know that 45 is only the beginning of the end of this great experiment called America and capitalism
More proof attesting to how serious Trump is about his anti-corruption efforts. (or should I say anti-anti-corruption)
🤣🤣🤣
They cancel each other out. Double negatives. Just say CORRUPTION EFFORTS.
@Edward MacLennan He is playing with words. You should get the irony.
@claudemiropacheco I do get it. “Anti-Anti-” is not inherently funny to me; if it went one step further, it would use the rule of threes, (“Anti-anti-anti-corruption” would be funny, because it becomes confusing) and it is not ironic to me, because everything trump does, is crooked, it is his default. It would be ironic if it was someone like Tom Hanks. That would be ironic.
The only corruption in which Trump is interested is the removal of impediments to more corruption.
Really cause there is proof that’s a lie.
@15k DOW 2022 yeah you can run but you cant hide.
@15k DOW 2022 You have my deepest sympathies. May you have a complete and gentle return to reality.
15k DOW 2022 mental lightweight
@15k DOW 2022 When the constitution was written there were no federal crimes yet. so what’s your point. The federal criminal code came along much later.
It won’t be until after Trump is gone before we learn the full extent of Trump’s crimes.
I believe that once everything is revealed, and the realization sinks in, that for 4 years, the very fate of America rested on the maniacal whims of a criminally incompetent sociopath, and moral deviant, it will leave the country aghast and horrified. And when that day comes, it will be a day of reckoning, because the American people are going to demand answers from those who knew, and did nothing.
It will be like opening a catacomb where corpses are still rotting.
At that point it will be like Sgt. Schulz on Hogan’s Heroes “I know nothink.”
A word salad with no calories
@Democracy Now he is the worst president in history. no other president has actively spread hate.
@wolfman02 they don’t know. they are brainwashed.
excellent reporting, ty dr maddow.
Yes, Rachel Maddow was an undergrad at Stanford who went on to become a Rhodes scholar and earn a Ph.D. from Oxford. Compare that with what Fox “News” has to offer.
I blame those who took business deals with him early on. Since no one wanted to lose him, they went on their knees and praised him, not luck him out.
Look what happens when you’re narcissistic and you think you know everything, how absurd.
#trumpisabsurd
+ Brad; It’s called the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Enjoy another term
Of course he did he is the most corrupt person ever. And he’s the biggest liar ever. We all know he’s only doing this for himself.
Stephen Miller is a perfect witness for the trial, abuse of power, intent for great crimes and misdemeanours?
Stephen Miller would have no problem, IMO, lying under oath.
can we get the longer clips back? ffs. im on my lunch break trying to eat and catch up on stuff and i have to fiddle with the phone every 2-3min AND NOW ITS ALL GREASY
What a clueless pos. This is why he still thinks he did nothing wrong during his phone call to the Ukrainian President. To him, bribery is not a crime. That is his mindset, that is is something possibly in his DNA. This man has to be removed asap or we become the United States of the Mafia.
I bet Rex Tillerson thank his lucky stars he was fired by the stable genius.
“I’m out, baby. I’m out!”
You would think Tillerson would be on speed dial to confirm this “report”…
When the “president”* says he knows something, he knows nothing.
And when he says he knows nothing, he knows something. And it’s something bad..
–Windsor Mann
“He just wants to do that in order to expose foreign corruption, so he can fight it more effectively.” -Trump supporters, probably.
Trump’s venal perfidy will be clearly recorded by history; those who enable and support him should be aware of that.
He’s like every evil kid in Willy Wonka combined while polluting the entire factory then charging triple for the chocolate
Removal is warranted and necessary!! Felony president protected by a criminal GOP senate!
I am sorry but are we in 1935 Germany. These tactics have been tried before and failed. Is this the new and improved form of fascism ?