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Chris Murphy: “No previous president has done this [personally signing off…”

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

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This Is What 500 Days of Trump's Corruption Looks Like

Published | Video Starts at 29:27

The entire time that Trump has been in office, we discover he has not been putting his money into a blind trust. He has been personally signing off on thousands and thousands of individual trades. No previous president has done this [personally signing off on trades]. Here's an example of how it works. Early in the year, Trump buys a million dollars of Dell stock. A couple days later, from the White House podium, he boosts the company Dell, that he just bought stock in. (29:27–29:32)

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Asserts that Trump's actions regarding personal trades are unprecedented among U.S. presidents.

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