"The president has turned the White House into a moneymaking operation": Raskin on Trump - On The Line - MS NOW

[Rhiannon12866]

As the fallout grows from the revelation that Trump raked in $2.2 billion in the first year of his second term in office, congressional Republicans have been largely quiet.

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) joins Alicia Menendez to talk about his Republican colleagues' response to the financial disclosure, as well as the weaponization of the Justice Department and the midterms. - Aired on 07/09/2026.

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1. The repubs would be screaming bloody murder if a Democrat was cashing in like that.

But when a Republican does it, hey, no hard, no foul.

Hypocrites!

[MLWR]

2. "congressional republicans have been largely quiet."

Largely because they, most likely, are doing exactly the same thing.

[KS Toronado]

3. Exactly, they don't want to get rid of their own cash cows.

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4. Either that, or he's giving (or promising) them something in exchange for their silence.