Since he took office, he's used the presidential pardon power as a tool to reward his friends and get people to do what he wants, even pardoning a crypto billionaire who is convicted of money laundering. And He has tried to engineer a scheme to have the Department of justice pay him $230 million. That's right. TRUMP wants you, the taxpayers, to gift him a quarter of a billion dollars. Since being elected to his second term, Trump and his family have received $1.8 billion worth of cash and gifts. (08:17–08:24)
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Asserts that Trump attempted to have the DOJ pay him $230 million.
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