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Pete Buttigieg: “There is something highly questionable about people from the…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 08:39

This is not a political question. The idea that the American people shouldn't have been spending hundreds of millions of dollars of our taxes on retrofitting a secondhand jumbo jet, the idea that There is something highly questionable about people from the President, United States to a lot of other officials getting rich on stock trades while making decisions that move markets. dealing with that is not some kind of partisan conquest. That's something that most Americans can actually come together around. But also there's the day to day accountability that our democratic system is supposed to deliver. (08:39–08:50)

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Asserts that officials, including the President, profit from stock trades influenced by their decisions.

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