Barack Obama, campaigning in Ohio with Acton and Sherrod Brown, lists what he calls the past couple weeks of grift. He says a US ambassador shook down a donor to pay off a $100,000 credit card bill, and that a Venezuelan billionaire seeking a pardon paid one of Trump's personal lawyers $50 million to be general counsel at an obscure company before getting it. "Never seen a president so intent on selling favors and shaking folks down," he says.
The receipt
- Who
- Barack Obama
- Where
- rally - Cleveland campaign rally with Dr. Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown
- Original footage
- WSYX ABC 6 · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 55 seconds, unedited within the cut
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Just look at the last couple weeks. We've got a U .S. United States ambassador shaking down a donor to pay off a $100 ,000 credit card bill. Then we learned there's a Venezuelan billionaire who wanted to pardon, paid one of Trump's personal lawyers $50 million to be general counsel at a company nobody knows anything about, and lo and behold, he gets the pardon, falls out of the sky, and this culture is set at the top. We have never seen a president excel so wildly and just straight up grifted on your dime. Never seen a president so intent on selling favors and shaking folks down. We
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