00:00At this point, Donald Trump is on track to be the most successful corrupt leader in the world's history.
00:08Best estimates are that he and his family have increased their net worth by more than $3.5 billion.
00:15Add to that the sheer number of federal contracts thrown to Trump friends and family,
00:19and the true scale will take years to unearth.
00:22We're at the very tip of the iceberg.
00:24Quick aside, at the CIA, I was an Iraq specialist.
00:28I spent a lot of time in Baghdad.
00:30Let me just say, Saddam Hussein would have spit out his tea at the level of corruption Trump and his
00:36family are currently engaged in.
00:38Palaces and golden ballrooms and arches dedicated to himself.
00:42Saddam would have been green with envy.
00:45But it's not just straight financial corruption.
00:49President Trump is benefiting from political corruption.
00:52We need to make clear to the public that corruption at the top is taking money directly out of their
00:58pockets.
00:58When Trump gains, you lose.
01:01Take as an example how your electricity bills keep climbing.
01:05That's because AI companies are building data centers that guzzle power,
01:09and President Trump is giving them tax breaks to do it.
01:13Healthcare is getting more expensive, but Trump doesn't want your prices to go down,
01:17because the largest healthcare companies are some of his biggest donors.
01:21If we've learned anything from Hungary and other authoritarian countries,
01:24it's that eventually we hit a tipping point and the public will refuse to accept this level of corruption.
01:30The authoritarian playbook is very clear.
01:33When you're at risk of losing, you either, A, make up a threat that only you can protect the American
01:39people from,
01:39or, B, find a way for federal law enforcement or the military to seize ballots or voting machines.
01:47In Hungary, Orban used Plan A.
01:49One week before his election, he falsely claimed that there was a major threat to an oil pipeline,
01:55an attempt to be seen as the only true protector of the state.
01:59Luckily, Hungarians saw right through it.
02:01They knew it was a ruse.
02:03So there's a lesson for us.
02:05In the run-up to Election Day, we need to be alert and ready.
02:09If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat that you've never heard of,
02:14that somehow requires federal law enforcement or the military and not local police,
02:20an alarm bell should go off in your brain.
02:22Do not let him get away with that.
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