ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” Sunday opened with sharp allegations of corruption against President Donald Trump and his family, just six months after ABC settled a $16 million defamation lawsuit from Trump over Stephanopoulos’s prior comments about E. Jean Carroll.
The Wrap reports Stephanopoulos launched the show by linking Trump’s pardons to his fundraising activities, implying the president and his family were profiting through pay-to-play schemes.
George Stephanopoulos opened @ThisWeekABC in high-dungeon over presidential corruption: “This unprecedented money making by a sitting President and his family summarized by critics like @TheAtlantic’s David Frum: ‘Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the… pic.twitter.com/XAkW8xGyA7
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“The scope is staggering,” he stated. “Trump and his family are reaping hundreds of millions, possibly billions, while taking official actions that favor contributors and investors. This week alone, we saw pardons granted to tax evaders, including one whose mother was pardoned shortly after attending a $1 million-per-person fundraiser for the president. Meanwhile, the Trump Media and Technology Group raised $2.5 billion from 50 undisclosed institutional investors.”
“‘Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency,’ he writes,” Stephanopoulos said. “‘Throw away the history books, discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past … The brazenness resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship.’ That’s where we begin this week.”
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