Patty Murray: “Since he took office, he's used the presidential pardon…”

“He has used the powers of his presidency to line his own pockets and help his friends get government contracts. He sold off access to the White House and increased his own net worth by billions. 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.” (08:02–08:17)

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