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Passes to major donors. that was outrageous. that was a violation of our etheth ethics and he made a mockery of our independence day. thank you for mentioning what s going on in your state. we just saw two natural disaster in the state of california, so this is a time when the federal government actually has priorities that are important that we should be spending money on, things like making sure that states are ready for natural disaster like you just saw in your state. when you see the president of the united states diverting money so he can have planes fly over him, rather than spending the money on important things like that, or maybe uncaging children, which he s also doing in the state of california and arizona and other places, as a member of congress, is there something that you plan to do about that. this does seem like a tremendous waste of money. members of congress can t use official resources to participate in a parade. in this case, trump diverts $2.5 million of nati ....
Craig unger, vanity fair contributor, and author of house of trump, house of putin, and representative ted lou, democrat from california, and a member of the foreign affairs and judiciary committees. i want to go to you first, congressman, what did you make of it, watching an american president do this thing that tom nichols, who is a soviet, expert on the history of the soviet union and of that region, described as looking like an old soviet kind of, you know, parade. thank you, joy for your question. let me just first say that natural disaster like earthquakes can strike at any time and i urge to be prepared with supplies and a safety plan. to answer your question, one of the big problems with trump s july 4th event is it was a campaign event paid for by the american taxpayer. not only did he divert millions of dollars to this event, he had the republican national committee give out passes, vip ....
Of the nazi threat, an threat in world w world war ii. it s huge. i was there for the parade and there s this complete procession of military vehicles. their missiles, tanks, armored vehicles, their jeeps and it looks like an army amassing for an invasion. someone turns to me and says do you do the same thing in the united states on the fourth of july. i said, no, this would never happen in the united states because they, in the united states believer there should be a really clear distinction between civilian authority and military might and that our authority is supposed to, at least in theory, stem from our laws and our moral believes. and what donald trump did was essentially invert that to create it as the kind of satirical, almost, emulation of something that he sees in vladimir putin, we should ....
World leader and martians have been defeated. donald trump not only wasted america s money to make himself a campaign commercial but also has subjected the united states to mockery because real dictatorships know what a dictator parade is supposed to look like, craig. at least sometimes they get their facts straight, and i mean, it s interesting that if the russian state tv is going after trump, that doesn t happen without vladimir putin s say so. it s also interesting, the clip you showed, the number of historical errors in it is just extraordinary, and the white house has an office of speech writing with lots of researchers and interns and they fact check things, and there are only three possibilities for that level of stupidity to take place. one is that that office is completely filled with people with room temperature iq, the other is that all the procedures have fallen apart, and they don t exist anymore, and the ....
I ve asked the federal election commission to look into this because how can you have all of this taxpayer money do this event and have the republican national committee be involved handing out vip passes to the major donors. yeah, and besides that, i want to go to you craig unger, you have written a lot about donald trump, his mafia sort of relationships that he has had throughout his career, particularly when it comes to russia. this is what michael mcfall, the former u.s. ambassador to russia tweeted after donald trump s weird parade. he said i knew this was coming, tweet from julia davis news, russia state tv is obsessively bashing trump s low energy weak parade with rusty tanks, the hosts lol at trump s claim s, there s your city upon a hill, a ....