Congressman Robert Garcia, speaking to the media after his "lawyer up" statement, says the first priority is to "take on the Trump crime family." He alleges Don Jr.'s wedding is paid for by a Russian oligarch, a Trump son sits on boards of companies getting Pentagon contracts, and the president is making billions from crypto while Americans struggle with rent and groceries.
The receipt
- Who
- Congressman Robert Garcia
- Where
- briefing - post-election press conference in Huntington Beach as projected House
- Original footage
- NBCLA · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 61 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
The first is we're going to take on the Trump crime family. The amount of grift and corruption is unprecedented in American politics. You have Don Jr., whose wedding is being paid for by a Russian oligarch. You have Jared Kushner, who got $2 billion from the Saudis when he left the White House. You have another son that is on, of course, the board of companies that are getting contracts from the Pentagon. The President himself is a crypto scheme where he's making billions of dollars. This family is billions richer as the American public struggle. And so as people are making choices about what to buy at the supermarket, whether they can pay the rent, the Trumps get richer and richer and richer. And so this is about affordability because as people struggle the Trumps just increase their wealth and so we're going to be focused like a laser on the Trump family and
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.