Gavin Newsom: And I'm not talking about the $100,000 watches. I'm not talking about
the guitars that he's selling that you didn't even know about, or the Bibles, or the
sneakers. I'm not talking about all that.

I'm talking about what's happening substantively with these kids and these
investments, and the Pentagon contracts they're receiving on rare earth
minerals and drone companies, and all the stuff that's happening with the
Kushner family, the Witkoff family, the "Board of Peace," which is about getting a
piece of the Middle East.

Let's talk about the UAE and high-value chips, where they're getting a piece of
our national security, where the Biden administration held off. But as long as
you can get a deal done with the UAE on the private family businesses, then all
of a sudden national security becomes less of an important talking point.

Or how about the tariff relief in places like Vietnam for the golf courses and the
development deals, and the dozen other countries that he's doing business in?
How about all the corruption as it relates to the self-dealing with his resorts and
all of his assets that the Secret Service and taxpayers are subsidizing? Or
directing G7 investments? Or the emoluments issues across the spectrum
every day? Or just the day trading literally behind the Oval Office desk, or
showing up on your calendar at a company that you just invested in because
you know that stock's going to pop because you're going to promote it the next
day?

All of this happening-this open sewage system. You talk about draining the
swamp. He gave it a presidential suite with gold leaf.

And you're seeing this gross corruption at a scale and scope never before seen
in modern American history. This is stuff I don't even imagine exists at this scale
in a year and a half, even in Putin's Russia or Kim Jong-un's North Korea.

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