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Donald Trump ran for president again with three goals in mind. Staying out of jail, attacking his political enemies, and grifting as much as possible. And while unfortunately, it seems like he's accomplished the first two with some success, the third, he still just won't stop. The grift is never done for Donald Trump.
But not just him. The rest of his family have profited off the presidency in ways previously unimaginable. And the latest, of course, is coming from the woman who is only around when it makes her some money. Whether that be in her contract that she likely has with Donald Trump or the new business endeavor that Melania is going on in a ridiculous video that she just posted, incredibly disturbing that we're going to get into as Donald Trump is losing it over this holiday.
But before we do, if I could quickly ask you to leave a like on this video and if you haven't already and you enjoy our channel, to hit that subscribe button because it goes a long way in supporting our work. Now, before we get into this disturbing video Melania posted, I want to start with an important breakdown of just how much this family has profited off the presidency from Jessica Tarlov right here.
"Josh, tell him I loved his op-ed." And Greg mentioned a staggering level of corruption. And I just got a note that the staggering level of corruption from last night's memecoin dinner. 40%? No. 40% of Donald Trump's wealth has been accumulated since he became president because of two crypto coins. The New York Times did interviews with foreign buyers of this cryptocurrency who came over here to have dinner with him. A guy from South Korea.
"This is not even part of this segment." So what? "You're talking about a meme coin." No, I'm talking about who is corrupt and who is profiting off the American office. Now, it's been more than a month or two since Jessica stated from that report that Donald Trump had already made billions of dollars, 40% at least of his net worth via crypto. And that number has only skyrocketed.
But again, we have to remember that it's not just Donald Trump who is himself personally profiting off the presidency. Uh, we saw Jared and Ivanka get $2 billion for his hedge fund. By the way, let's talk about that for a second before we get to Melania. Jared Kushner had one stipulation on the $2 billion that the Saudis gave him, and it's that he wasn't allowed to manage the money. He is such an idiot that he got money that he wasn't allowed to do anything with because the Saudis knew he was an idiot, but they said, "We're going to pretend like this corrupt investment is because we trust Jared so much." Just nonsense.
But this extends to all the other idiots in the Trump periphery as Chris Murphy broke down here before we get to Melania. "This is a video I did just a few months ago about a little-known Florida drone company called Unusual Machines. Specifically, Donald Trump Jr. just went on the advisory board of a very small drone company called Unusual Machines based out of Florida. And as soon as he went on the board, guess what happened? The stock price of this company doubled like overnight because, you know, in this environment, in this White House, everybody knows when the fix is about to be in. And guess what this little Florida company just announced? They're getting a huge contract from the Department of Defense. So Donald Trump Jr. goes on this board. He has a $4 million investment and then months later they get this enormous contract from the federal government. It's for drone motors. Apparently, they just started making drone motors like five minutes ago. The corruption is just so bold and brazen. It used to be that people who were on the take would try to hide it. The Trump family doesn't even try to hide it any longer. They're just literally robbing from you. And it's your money. And this is taxpayer dollars. Just last week, Donald Trump says that he's going to make the Department of Justice pay him hundreds of millions of dollars for grievances that he made up about how he was treated by the Department of Justice before he became president. Now, Donald Trump Jr. is just awarding himself. We don't even know how much money yet. Probably millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars for a company that he just went on the board of. This is outrageous. And whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, you should be outraged by this because once you are able as president of the United States to just steal from taxpayers like every day, that's a genie that you don't get to put back in the bottle. These people have proven to be too stupid to do real business again and again and again. And so they turn to the easiest business to do, which is full-blown corruption. Don Jr., Eric Trump, Melania, Barron, who is probably insider trading throughout the rises and falls of the stock market that coincide pretty nicely with Donald Trump's Truth Social posts. Huh? These people aren't smart. They are just ripping us off. Every dollar they make is a dollar that is stolen from me and you in some way. Not even to mention all the money that Trump makes off playing his own golf courses. It is too much to handle. Which is why it is insane that Melania has decided to double down again with this insane video."
Melania unveils new White House grift in weird trailer. First Lady Melania Trump has launched a new production company great ahead of the release of her documentary with an eyebrow-raising name. She unveiled her new production company called Muse in a Friday morning tweet of a 10-second video, which came weeks before the theatrical release on January 30th of Melania. Amazon MGM Studios splurged $40 million for the exclusive rights to the film, which it says will give an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at her life. Muse Films is the latest in a long line of Trump family businesses, which have close ties with Donald Trump's official status. The name appears to have been carefully chosen during her husband Donald Trump's first presidential term. CNN reported that the Secret Service code name for Melania, a former model, was Muse.
A launch trailer was posted by the first lady on Twitter, and it reveals that the company has new branding. With a black background and a large M, it evokes decades past and a legacy studio feel. I don't even know what this description is. It's kind of ridiculous. It is not clear though if the studio will work on other projects beyond the documentary about the first lady. And while using her code name for commercial purposes is without precedent, so too is the documentary itself. First ladies have been part of TV production since Jacqueline Kennedy showed the White House interior, but none have ever made money from them. Melania reportedly pitched the idea to Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and his then-fiancé Lauren Sanchez during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago after her husband's second election victory. Two weeks later, Amazon made its largest ever offer for a documentary of any type in December 2024. There was widespread cynicism about the company's motivation for signing up a Melania documentary for a record-breaking sum. Yeah, I know why they did it. Corruption. It's that blatant. It is obvious. It is very, very cheap actually for Jeff Bezos to spend $40 million on the Melania movie and then get whatever he wants out of Donald Trump. That is a very great tradeoff for the trillion-dollar company for Jeff Bezos to then be able to cater tariffs how he wants for Donald Trump to do him special favors for money to be appropriated to any other subsidiaries under Amazon. That's a really great deal for Jeff Bezos. And so, of course, he's going to buy the Melania movie for a staggering amount. And of course, this dumb production company will continue to rake in the millions. Why? Because this is the corruption of the Trump administration. And they're so open about it.
But the reason why they feel so comfortable is pretty insane. And Don Jr. actually, and Eric as well, when they were pressed about it on Fox, gave one of the more ridiculous answers I've ever heard from this family. "Critics are saying, 'Hey, well, maybe you shouldn't be doing this.' The New Yorker, for example, says the number, how much is Trump pocketing off the presidency? Axios, President Trump and his family stand to net $3.4 billion by the end of the second term. David Kirkpatrick reports for The New Yorker in a piece today. The number of why it matters. No US president has monetized the highest office in the land quite like this. Eric, your answer to those headlines."
"Brandice, infuriating. We had nowhere to go. Capital One stripped 300 bank accounts from me. 300 in the middle of the night. They sent us a letter after doing business for 20-some years. All your bank accounts for golf courses and condominium buildings and hotels, they're all gone in the middle of the night. I mean, how do you pay your taxes? How do you pay your employees? This happened across the board. It happened with JP Morgan Chase. It happened with Bank of America. It happened with First Republic. And this wasn't just happening to the Trumps, people with a lot of zeros on the end. This was happening to conservatives all over the country. We didn't have a damn choice. So before my father, you know, won the election, before my father was in office, we started getting into cryptocurrency. The people in cryptocurrency were being debanked just like Trump was being debanked. And you know what? It's become the fastest-growing industry anywhere in the world. It's actually removed a lot of the power from the big banks who have weaponized their platforms against the American people. And I could not be more proud to be..."
"I don't notice them talking about the hundreds of millions of dollars we had to spend fighting lawfare. That doesn't matter, right? That was all nonsense, right? Russia, Russia, Russia, you name it. Impeachment 1, hoax 2, 3, 4, 5, infinity. No one talks about that."
Don Jr. essentially saying, "We broke the law before and there were consequences, so we are going to break the laws now and hope and demand there are no consequences." Is crazy. Do you understand you were debanked because Trump incited an insurrection and is a criminal? Do you understand that people didn't want to do business with you because you're bad at business? Do you understand they only want to do business with you now because of your corruption? Are we not aware of that? This is ridiculous and a stupid justification for the crypto corruption. By the way, you didn't get into crypto because you thought it was such an amazing industry. You got into crypto because it's rife for criminality. That is why Donald Trump did, because it is the easiest way for foreign governments and corporations to directly pay him, for him to get a cut of everything.
It is truly staggering, as Jessica said at the beginning of this video, the amount of money that this family has been able to profit off of the presidency. And in such open view of the public, it's almost as if they believe if they're doing these things in public, like we won't hold them accountable for it. If they just do it in public, then they can pretend that it's business as usual. And that is how Don Jr. is framing it. That's what Eric is saying as well, that we deserve it at this point. We deserve all of the corruptions and the insider trading because you were mean to us after we broke the law. You broke the law. And it just continues.
And Chris Murphy, one of the loudest voices in calling it out, did so again right here. "The blatant exchange of US national security secrets, our most sensitive drone technology, and our most sensitive chip technology in exchange for cash into Donald Trump's pocket is perhaps the most brazenly corrupt act in the history of the American presidency. And we cannot normalize it just because he is doing it out in the open in public. The Senate, the Senate, which is given the responsibility by the Constitution to be a co-equal branch with the president. We have independent responsibility to uphold and protect the Constitution to set American foreign policy. We cannot pretend this is not happening. We cannot look the other way while the entire moral foundation of our foreign policy is being shattered. Republicans can't ignore this just because the president is their party's leader. We have that independent obligation to protect the Constitution, which clearly says that these gifts are illegal whether they're going to a Democratic president or a Republican president. We have a responsibility to our taxpayers to stop a president from immorally enriching himself, using the power we give him to help himself instead of helping us."
Chris Murphy has really been on this beat throughout the entirety of the Trump presidency and it is incredibly commendable and we have to do the same work as well. We are going to on this show and if you want to support that, as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video. If you stuck around to the end, drop a blue heart in the comments. We will keep on fighting. And as I said yesterday, I am so thankful for y'all for the opportunity to have this community, for the opportunity to call out this corruption. That is why we are going to keep fighting. We're not going to let them silence us. And until next time, I'll see you.