Donald Trump Jr. says that although he, his father, and the entire Trump family have been engaged in massive corruption since the old man took office for his second term, they had no choice but to line their pockets because “they put us in this position.”
Speaking with Sara Eisen of CNBC, Don Jr. and his brother, Eric, were asked about the World Financial Liberty deal with the United Arab Emirates, which critics have called a “blatant, disgraceful conflict of interest and a possible violation of the Constitution’s Federal Emoluments Clause.”
“I do want to ask you about, you know, the World Liberty Corporation,” she said, “and there was this big Wall Street Journal report about the 49% stake that was sold to an Emirati royal family member after your father was elected president raising raising questions about whether they were doing that so they could get access to AI chips.”
“A, my father has nothing to do with it,” Donald Jr. claimed. “B, it has nothing to do with AI chips, and C, we met in the Middle East the first time. There’s not a person in that room, there’s not a banker, there’s not a fund manager that doesn’t go to the Middle East and to the, you know, whether the sovereign wealth funds of the world, there’s some of the biggest investors in every fund in America.”
“To critique the one here and not talk about the others would be nonsense,” he added. “It’s literally what they do. And so they have done that. They invested in it, and they’ve actually had already over 4x return on their investment. It’s a great investment and has nothing to do with the other.”
Junior also whined that people had complained about his daddy making big bucks the first time he was president, as if that made the current corruption copacetic.
“I mean, they tried all this nonsense the first time around,” he remarked. “Frankly, it’s gotten old. They were the ones that put us into this position by creating legislation to try to put us out of business. We just fought back.”
“We weren’t willing to sit in a corner, curl up in a ball, and die like they would love us to do. That’s not how we function. That’s not how we operate.”
Eric then joined the conversation, insisting that Bitcoin is a wise investment despite recent downturns in the cryptocurrency markets.
“Name an asset class that has performed better than Bitcoin,” he said. “If you don’t want volatility, you know, go invest in some muni, you know, go have a great time, go invest in some treasury.”
“You’re going to have volatility with something that has a tremendous upside, but I’ve never been more bullish on Bitcoin in my life,” he continued. “I’ve never been more bullish on cryptocurrency in my life.”
Translation: Let them eat cake! If the average investor can’t afford to lose their retirement savings, they can always open a savings account and draw a meager return. And if they starve in their senior years, that’s just too damn bad.
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