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Chris Murphy: “It has been a fact of life.”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

Murphy Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

Published March 6, 2025 | Video Starts at 27:20

And I'm not saying that there haven't been instances of corruption. Democrats and Republicans in this body have been accused of and convicted of acts of corruption. It has been a fact of life. In American politics for a long time. But never before has the corruption happened this openly or this frequently. And so I lay it all out. (27:20–27:22)

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“One of his [Putin's] many houses cost $1.4 billion to build.”
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“Supposedly, the landscaping costs on an annual basis for that house are $2 million alone.”
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“That $1.4 billion house was paid for by money he [Putin] stole from the Russian treasury.”
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“Putin, for instance, wears a watch that retails for a half a million dollars, even though his official salary is only $140,000.”
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“In the first six months of the Trump presidency, Trump and Elon Musk and their billionaire friends have engaged in a stunning rampage of…”
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“The things that have happened over the last six weeks are unprecedented.”
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“This White House is on its way to being the most corrupt in the history of the country.”
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“On January 17th, Trump launches the Meme Coin.”
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“The Meme Coin is essentially a mechanism by which Russian oligarchs or corporate CEOs can literally send money privately, directly to Donald…”
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“He reserves 80% of the coin. He waits to release that coin until the price jumps back up again.”
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“On January 20, Trump unveils his energy strategy. And what does it do? It preferences oil and gas.”
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“It freezes all permits on wind projects, both for the land and the sea.”
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“Five days later, Trump fires 17 inspectors general.”
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“On January 27th, Trump fires Quinn Wilcox from the NLRB.”
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“On January 30, Trump awards more than $800,000 worth of stock to several of the board members of the Trump Media and Technology Group.”
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“On February 23, a civil complaint from DOJ that had been pending against SpaceX, Elon Musk's signature company, is dropped.”
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“On February 1, Trump fires the director of the CFPB and announces plans to shut down to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Board.”
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“On February 4, there is the first of two extraordinary meetings in the White House in which Donald Trump convenes his business partners, the…”
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“Pam Bondi, the AG, issues a memorandum [to] dull the criminal enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.”
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“Donald Trump directs the DOJ to pause enforcement of US laws that prohibit companies from paying bribes overseas.”
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“Goldman Sachs was engaged in outright bribery. They were paying bribes to Malaysian officials.”
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“The State Department is going to buy $400 million of armored Teslas.”
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“Trump revises that blueprint of spending so that now the federal government is going to spend $400 million on armored Teslas from Elon Musk.”
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“SpaceX has an employee injury rate that is nine times higher than the industry average.”
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“On February 15th and 16th, all over a weekend, there are 20 people fired.”
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“The federal government that they need to.”
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“They ultimately need something from the federal.”
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“Democracies die when the very powerful people.”
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“May think that all of this stuff.”
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“For you this afternoon in the hopes that it is not too late for us to decide to stand up as a body and as a nation to.”
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“The Trump meme coin is not okay. It's not okay for.”
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“Interests before the federal government to be able to anonymously funnel money to the President of the United States.”
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“It's not okay to just cancel contracts that were going to Musk's competitors and substitute in his own business.”
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