Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Trump’s Rampant Corruption & New “Truth API”

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor condemning Donald Trump for yet another blatantly corrupt policy that only helps the rich get richer, leaving the rest of America behind. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Every single day, we see a new example of Trump's rampant corruption.

Senate Democrats are putting all of Trump's scams under the magnifying glass in the coming weeks, and Trump's new "Truth API" stands out as one of his most corrupt grifts yet. Every day there's a new example of these kind of grifts that Trump gets involved in.

Instead of draining the swamp like he promised, Trump has filled it to the brim. Now, look at this, Trump is charging admission. For the low price of a hundred thousand dollars a month, an investor can turn a profit off early access to Trump's market-moving posts.

Trump imposes new tariffs? Subscribers can short their stocks before anyone else.

Trump announces a new contract? Subscribers know where to invest.

Trump shakes up the Fed? Subscribers get to reposition before the rest of the market blinks.

Meanwhile, Trump rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars in subscription fees.

Truth API is the exact definition of insider trading. It's textbook pay to play. And this is what Donald Trump spends his time doing. And remember traders only need a millisecond headstart to make a fortune. Just one millisecond and they can make a lot of money the way trading works these days.

As always, Trump's corruption benefits the rich at the expense of working families.

How many American families do you think can afford $100,000 a month to get a leg up in the market?

And Trump is doing what he always does: selling out America, American interests, and the American people to the highest bidder.

Republicans ought to be up in arms about Truth API and the latest news about Trump's foreign jet.

Trump's four-hundred-million-dollar Qatari jet is the single biggest bribe an American president has ever accepted in history. Let me repeat that: Trump's four-hundred-million-dollar Qatari jet is the single biggest bribe an American president has ever accepted in history. And I've been warning about this for months.

And somehow the American people still get an invoice. It will [reportedly] cost the taxpayer as much as a billion dollars to retrofit Trump's plane for presidential use. We just learned that his luxury jet is grounded until it can be "maxed out" to meet the same standards as the old Air Force One.

Give me a break. Commercial airline ticket costs are up 27% over last year, and Trump wants the American people to pay to get his airborne palace off the ground.

Trump ought to rename the plane Air Farce One. It's not Air Force One, it's Air Farce One.

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