Trump's New CRIMINAL Secret Just Got EXPOSED!!

0:00 Look, folks, I am truly at a loss for words.

0:02 I cannot believe that this level of corruption

0:05 is just the norm in Donald Trump's America.

0:08 And the Republican party just looks away and pretends it's not happening.

0:12 We all know that the reflecting pool construction

0:14 that Donald Trump is doing is bad enough.

0:17 It's so much worse than we thought.

0:19 There is so much corruption and it goes so much deeper than,

0:21 "Oh, I'm just painting over the reflecting pool." No.

0:24 Donald Trump has found a way to funnel taxpayer money,

0:27 our money that we work for, that we pay to the federal government

0:30 to use for the reflecting pool and pay his buddies in the process.

0:34 It is so disgusting.

0:36 And matter of fact, Donald Trump was posting about

0:38 his reflecting pool on social media today at 5:36 p.m.

0:43 he was posting this edited image of the water as blue because

0:46 of course he's painting it blue because he thinks that looks nice.

0:49 And that's one of the major pieces of construction

0:51 that he's doing and spending millions of dollars to do it.

0:53 And also, if you were wondering physically

0:55 where Donald Trump was as he's posting

0:57 this, as this corruption scheme is being exposed for all of us to see,

1:01 he was at his golf course in Washington DC

1:04 and people were there cheering him on for some reason.

1:06 Just look at this video.

1:07 It is sickening.

1:19 What are you cheering for?

1:20 This is a criminal riding around in a golf court

1:23 at one of his properties and not doing the job of president.

1:27 He's taken the weekend off.

1:29 He's watching the golf tournament at one of his golf

1:31 clubs at one of his many properties around the country.

1:33 What are you cheering for?

1:35 It is insane.

1:36 And that brings us to this just ludicrous story that we're learning.

1:40 Trump gave $6.9 million of no bid contract money to his own

1:46 pool guy to repaint the reflection pool under an urgent exemption.

1:50 So, let's get into the story because there's a lot.

1:52 Donald Trump used a government exemption to give

1:55 a $6.9 million no bid contract to his pool

1:59 guy to repaint their Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool

2:01 to a blue color after complaining it never looked great.

2:04 The exemption is typically reserved for urgent situations.

2:08 I don't think a reflecting pool is urgent to prevent serious injury,

2:12 financial or other to the government,

2:14 according to documents reviewed in an exclusive report by the New York Times.

2:18 But Trump used the exemption to get

2:20 the company Atlantic Industrial Codings to quickly begin work

2:23 on the memorial as part of an array

2:25 of building projects and refurbishments taking place across Washington DC.

2:30 Quote, Trump said, "I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools up

2:34 the road." Trump told reporters about the project in the Oval Office last month.

2:39 Usually, government contracts are awarded to the vendor that can do

2:42 the best job for the lowest cost through a public bidding process.

2:46 But Donald Trump completely ignored that.

2:49 Instead, giving $7 million to his pool guy to do the job.

2:54 What happened to Doge, by the way?

2:56 I thought Doge's entire mission was

2:59 reducing wasteful spending in the federal government,

3:01 reducing fraud in the federal government,

3:03 and now Donald Trump is handing out $7 million no bid contracts to his pool guy,

3:08 and nobody's asking any questions.

3:10 Of course.

3:11 Of course, because Doge, they decided, you know what?

3:14 We have to cut Medicare and Medicaid funding.

3:16 But Donald Trump's pool guy, that's necessary government spend spending.

3:19 This project is now being completed at Trump speed,

3:22 said a White House spokesperson.

3:24 Roger said Trump selected American flag blue for the paint color,

3:27 which is not only incredibly patriotic,

3:29 but will also improve the reflection qualities of the pool.

3:32 As Trump said, this project will be done under budget,

3:36 under budget and ahead of schedule,

3:38 ultimately for the benefit of the American people.

3:40 Yes, you know what?

3:42 They're right.

3:43 The middle inome single mom out there who's struggling to make ends meet,

3:47 her life is materially better because Donald

3:49 Trump decided to repaint the the reflecting pool.

3:51 No, it makes perfect sense.

3:53 They're right on it.

3:54 These guys are insane.

3:55 Work on the reflecting pool has already begun.

3:57 Last month, crews were spraying the American flag

3:59 blue spray paint on the 2030 ft pool, the Independent discovered.

4:04 But experts told the Times that changing the color

4:06 was unlikely to fix the problems at the reflecting pool,

4:09 which mainly is a plumbing problem.

4:12 The color has nothing to do with it.

4:13 It's a plumbing problem.

4:14 The pool, which sits in front of the Lincoln Memorial,

4:17 has slowly sunk into the ground over time because it was built on marshland.

4:21 DC is essentially a swamp, both literally and metaphorically.

4:25 It underwent massive construction in 2010,

4:27 but still faced filtration problems that led

4:30 to algae blooming across the surface.

4:31 While the National Park Service cleans the algae off the surface,

4:34 the president has expressed dissatisfaction

4:37 at the green tint to the reflecting pool.

4:39 So, he's very upset about that and is giving his buddies, his friends,

4:44 his pool guy, $7 million of your money to get the job done.

4:48 And this comes as Donald Trump is proposing 10 billion with a B,

4:54 not an M, B to fund projects around DC, these construction projects.

4:59 And of course, that includes the reflecting pool.

5:01 That includes the ballroom,

5:02 which he's seeking a billion dollars for just to build

5:05 his pet project that he said he was funding,

5:07 that he said private donors were covering as well.

5:10 That's Donald Trump's thing.

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6:10 But no, the White House is instead proposing

6:13 a $10 billion budget intended to help beautify Washington DC,

6:18 the latest effort by Donald Trump to remake a city he has

6:21 long criticized for being dirty and unworthy of serving the nation's capital.

6:27 Cuz that is of course the most important thing right now, right?

6:30 These beauty projects across DC.

6:32 And it does come as inflation is hitting record highs.

6:35 This is what Jerome Powell said recently

6:37 about the inflation that everybody is still feeling.

6:41 Inflation has moved up recently and is

6:43 elevated relative to our 2% longer run goal.

6:47 Estimates based on the consumer price index and other data indicate

6:50 that total PCE prices rose 3.5% over the 12 months ending in March,

6:56 boosted by the significant rise in global oil prices

6:59 that has resulted from the conflict in the Middle East.

7:03 Excluding the volatile food and energy categories,

7:06 core PCE prices rose 3.2% 2% over the 12 months ending in March.

7:11 This relatively high rate largely reflects the effects

7:14 of tariffs on prices in the goods sector.

7:17 Near-term measures of inflation expectations have risen this year,

7:20 likely because of the substantial rise in oil prices.

7:25 So, while we're all suffering because of Donald Trump's tariffs,

7:29 he and his buddies, well, you know, they're getting $7 million contracts,

7:32 which they shouldn't be receiving to paint over the reflecting pool.

7:36 They're insider trading based on economic announcements,

7:40 war announcements, just general business announcements from this administration.

7:44 And they're making all the money in the world.

7:46 All the money in the world while everybody else suffers.

7:49 It is disgusting.

7:50 It is disgraceful, but not unexpected from this administration.

7:54 But just when you thought this whole

7:55 reflecting pool thing couldn't get any worse,

7:57 he's giving a contract that nobody had a say in.

8:01 There was no bid.

8:02 There was no process using a special exemption to one of his pool guys.

8:07 Of course, I will leave the video there.

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