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Buttigieg: "The only thing they drained up there is that old reflecting pool."

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Pete Buttigieg, speaking at a campaign event in Henrico County, Virginia, runs through what Republicans promised: cut costs on day one, keep the US out of wars, drain the swamp. He says corruption is at an all-time high, pointing to "billions of dollars in crypto money flowing into the first family's pockets."

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Who
Pete Buttigieg
Where
rally - Democratic campaign event in Henrico County, Virginia
Original footage
Pete Buttigieg · watch the full video from this moment
Length
36 seconds, unedited within the cut
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152 on Instagram
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They said they were going to cut costs on day one. They said they were going to keep us out of wars. Then they said they were going to drain the swamp. Remember that? As if this Republican Party was an anti -corruption force. Only to watch the swamp become the swampiest it has ever been. The only thing they drained up there is that old reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. It's an all -time high in corruption of the billions of dollars in crypto money flowing into the first family's pockets, which is not even a sentence I would have known how to put together a couple of years ago.

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