Barack Obama, at a campaign rally for Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan Senate race, says a US ambassador shook down a donor for $100,000 to pay her credit card bills, and that a Venezuelan billionaire seeking a pardon paid one of Trump's personal lawyers $50 million to be general counsel of "a company nobody knows anything about." Obama says no president has ever been "so intent on selling favors like this."
The receipt
- Who
- Barack Obama
- Where
- rally - Detroit campaign event with Abdul El-Sayed and Jocelyn Benson ahead of t
- Original footage
- USA TODAY · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 44 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 102 on Instagram
Read the transcript
got a US ambassador Shaking down a donor to pay off her credit card bills hundred thousand dollars We learned of venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon So he paid one of Trump's personal lawyers $50 million to be general counsel of a company nobody knows anything about and lo and behold The pardon falls out of the sky This is a culture that's set at the top. We have never seen a president excel in straight -up grifting on your dime like this. Never seen a president so intent on selling favors like this.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.