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Edward Markey: “It's a slush fund of $1.8 billion for his children, for his…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Full speech: Markey uses Worcester convention speech to attack Trump, Moulton

Published | Video Starts at 05:10

It is corrupt and it's ugly. Trump's anti weaponization fund is nothing more than a payout to the latter day kkk, the Oath Keepers, the proud boys, the insurrectionists. It's a slush fund of $1.8 billion for his children, for his cronies, for his corporations. It is corruption on steroids. And we, we need to take away the President's power to issue corrupt pardons and impeach Donald Trump now. But we can't stop there. (05:10–05:19)

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Asserts that the fund is a $1.8 billion slush fund for Trump's associates.

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