Leader Schumer Floor Remarks: “Trump Is Shaking Hands With Himself In Order To Fund His Insurrectionist Army To The Tune Of $2 Billion”

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke on the Senate floor blasting Donald Trump's $2 billion Department of Justice settlement to fund his army of MAGA allies and January 6^th insurrectionists using taxpayer dollars. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

As working families shorten their grocery lists as they struggle to make ends meet, Donald Trump has added a nearly two-billion-dollar slush fund for his MAGA allies and January 6th insurrectionists to his wish list of pet projects he wants to fund with taxpayer dollars.

Of all the corrupt things Donald Trump has done, this MAGA slush fund at the Department of Justice is one of the most depraved.

Trump is shaking hands with himself in order to fund his insurrectionist army to the tune of two billion dollars. Trump is shaking hands, with himself, making his own deal with himself in order to fund his insurrectionist army to the tune of billions of dollars

He's signing a contract with himself to use these funds for illicit purposes.

Can you believe it America? How low can we go with this president?

Trump pardoned violent insurrectionists who assaulted your Capitol to overturn your votes and now he wants to give them your hard-earned tax dollars as a reward. Can you believe that?

He's taking money out of your paycheck, America, and putting it into pockets of his cronies, criminals, and cop-beaters.

This settlement with the IRS is a farce.

Trump sued his own government. He's the president and he sued the government. He asked for $10 billion. The gall of this man. And then, Trump's own [Justice] Department, with his own appointed attorney general, settled with Trump. Trump settled with Trump. And now Trump gets a nearly $2 billion slush fund as part of that settlement. And what is he going to do with it? He's going to reward his own allies, loyalists, and insurrectionists. How crooked can it be? How perverted, how slanted, how far away from American ideals.

No president, none, should be able to use the Department of Justice as a personal rewards program for the people who helped him attack our democracy. Again America, he sued America for $10 billion, and then he settled with himself. He said "Okay, I'll settle for $2 billion and then I can use that to aid my cronies." America, you're listening? What is this guy doing? We've never seen anything like this, even in the worst and most corrupt administrations we've had we've never seen anything like this.

It's self-dealing. It's corruption. It's abuse of power. It's happening in broad daylight. Where are our Republican colleagues when something so abysmal, so low, so degrading to what America is all about? Where are they? Shrugging their shoulders. Whatever Donald Trump wants, let him do. Even though we know what a bad human being he is.

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