In his 60 Minutes post-midterms interview, President Donald Trump was asked whether foreign investors who want things from his government think they are buying influence in the company he co-owns with his sons. He said every president has had this problem, "going back to George Washington." The interviewer replied that no other president has owned a cryptocurrency company.
The receipt
- Who
- President Donald Trump
- Where
- interview - 60 Minutes post-midterms interview
- Original footage
- 60 Minutes · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 46 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
Do you think the people who are investing in the company that you co -own with your sons, who are coming from foreign countries who want things from your government, don't you think they think that they are buying influence? I don't know, but that's true. Look, every president has a problem. You have people and they work for you. And guys like you cover them and you do profiles on them and they become like everybody thinks that Trump loves them and everything else, which in some cases is true and some cases not. This is true for every president. Going back to George Washington. Every president has not owned a cryptocurrency company, however. But they own something whatever crypto was at the time. Okay? You know, there's crypto and before that there was oil and okay. And every president has had this problem.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.