00:00We're here today to call out the most corrupt administration in American history.
00:06While the American people are struggling by and can't afford the cost of gas, groceries, the rent,
00:12Donald Trump, his family, and his allies are getting enormously wealthy and rich on a massive scale.
00:20Now, we know that this administration is the most corrupt in history,
00:24that this administration is the most corrupt in history.
00:27And I want to talk about the Trump family.
00:31As of April of 2026, we know that Trump is now worth an estimated $6.3 billion richer,
00:39over $6 billion richer than he's ever been.
00:42And we, of course, have to think about his actual record in business.
00:46His resorts and casinos went bankrupt.
00:49He stiffed workers.
00:51He says he's the greatest builder of all time and can't build a reflecting pool.
00:55So he's been a terrible business person.
00:57But he is a world-class expert on ripping people off and government corruption.
01:05And we know it's not just the president alone.
01:07The whole family is involved in looting the American treasury,
01:12and it's all to a benefit for themselves and their friends.
01:15And, of course, we just learned that Don Jr.'s wedding was paid for in large part by a Russian oligarch
01:23with close ties to Vladimir Putin.
01:25We're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars,
01:28which has already, by the way, been confirmed by Don Jr. himself.
01:34Don Jr., Eric, Jared Kushner.
01:38We don't even know the full extent of this family's grift and corruption.
01:43And I want to run through how this actually works.
01:46Now, we know the family has made over $2.4 billion in profit just from their crypto grift,
01:52and they make millions more every single week.
01:55If you want to buy a pardon or change government policy,
01:58you can invest with Trump's crypto companies or even buy some coins.
02:03Or you can donate to the inauguration, the ballroom, or library funds.
02:09It's all out in the open for anyone to see.
02:12Now, again, $2.4 billion in crypto grifts and millions more every single week.
02:18Now, many of these donations have ties to foreign governments and entities with unknown motives.
02:25We know his administration even solicited a plane from Qatar worth $400 million.
02:30And they're doing foreign deals abroad, real estate deals, shady deals,
02:35and looking, of course, using whether it's through war or whether it's through their own diplomacy.
02:41We have people like Jared Kushner and Don Jr. cutting deals on the ground
02:45as the president and others are meeting and actually trying to engage in some type of diplomacy.
02:52Now, the foreign contracts that are lining the pockets of the Trump family
02:56is just a part of this corruption.
02:58They're also getting, as we know, these direct government contracts.
03:02And Don Jr., while sitting on the boards of companies,
03:05is getting contracts from the Defense Department.
03:09And this is all happening as the bills go higher and higher for working class people.
03:14We also know that for a fee of $100,000, you can even get access to posts or gamble or
03:22trade
03:22on the president's true social network.
03:26And so whether it's stocks, whether it's investment deals,
03:30whether it's trying to buy islands in other countries like the customers have tried to do,
03:34whether it's shaking down private companies or selling pardons,
03:38Trump continues to engage in massive corruption while serving as president, of course, of the United States.
03:45And we know it's not just the Trump family.
03:48They've also given a green light for there to be enormous corruption through administration officials.
03:54Now, at the Department of Homeland Security,
03:56we know that then-Secretary Kristi Noem may have personally benefited
04:00from a $220 million ad contract, which she herself started.
04:05At DHS, Corley Wendowski demanded personal payments from contractors
04:09in order to keep those contracts and consulting payments from foreign governments
04:13while actually at the department.
04:15And who, of course, could forget Elon Musk,
04:18who has given free reign to dismantle large parts of the federal government
04:22while raking in billions in federal government contracts.
04:27Many of these changes made as a result of Trump's pay-to-play policies
04:30have caused danger to the American public.
04:33And we know that Taylor Farms, for example, donated millions to the president,
04:38met privately with the White House and the FDA,
04:40and then what happened?
04:41Millions of Americans got sick with no real accountability.
04:46The corruption continues,
04:48and this is, again, the most corrupt administration in history.
04:54Trump is getting richer while we all pay the price.
04:57He fills his pockets while his tariffs and his policies screw working Americans.
05:03They make homes more expensive to build, and utility bills harder to pay.
05:07The oil industry spent nearly $220 million to elect Trump,
05:11and now, of course, Americans are paying $4 a gallon at the pump.
05:17In my home state of California, it's oftentimes over $5 a gallon.
05:22We know that companies and CEOs are getting richer
05:24while the American public are struggling to get by.
05:28We've got to bring back a government that works for the people,
05:30and I want to thank our witnesses for being here.
05:33And with that, I want to turn it over to Senator Blumenthal.
