hundreds of diplomats, journalists and security personnel to the resort during one of its slowest months of the year. trump s decision to select his own resort as host of the international gathering is a sign that he s becoming more brazen about flouting criticism from congress and shattering ethical norms that have been observed by previous presidents with regard to separating the duties of their office from their financial well-being. the trump organization said today that it was, quote, honored to have been chosen by its owner, the president, for this event, end quote. they actually tried to do this. i mean, we re still learning like what he had the justice department do on his behalf. i hate adam schiff. subpoena his records. have the justice department go after him and investigate him and all his staff and their families, right? but then there s also just like, i want the u.s. government and lots of foreign governments to pay me.
had been observed by previous presidents with regard to separating the duties of their office from their financial well-being. the organization said it was, quote, honored to have been chosen by its own, or the president, for this event. and to quote. the actually tried to do this. we are still learning what he had the justice department do on his behalf. i hate adam schiff, subpoena his records, have the justice department go after him and investigate his staff and families. all right? it s also just like, i want the u.s. government and lots of foreign governments to pay me. i decided we are going to do that stuff at my hotel. the president said he wanted the g7 in his hotel. why whoever the poor sod was he was offering the white house twitter account at the time had to tweet this out as a big announcement about where the g7 was going to be. they announced to the press
have the justice department go after him and investigate him and all of his staff and their families, right? but then there s also just like, i want the u.s. government and lots of foreign governments to pay me. i ve decided we re going to do that stuff at my hotel. the president said he wanted the g-7 at his hotel. white house personnel went along with it. whoever the poored so was who was operating the white house twitter account had to tweet this out as a big announcement. the white house chief of staff mick mulvaney announced it to the press from the white house briefing room. this was not a lark, they really tried to do it. and yeah, sure, it is actually written in the constitution that u.s. officials can t take money from any foreign governments, but who cares, right? who s going to enforce it? can t prosecute the president. and no prosecutor after he s gone will be interested. the way they did this, any foreign government that wanted to participate in a 2020 g-7 summit would hav
i mean, how did you get out of it? how are you so far down that rabbit hole, where you are so, obviously, exposed to misinformation online. how do you get out of that? i i don t think there is any one way for anyone to get out of it. i think the best thing to do when it comes to other people is to try and focus on their behaviors. i don t and try and distract them. bring them back. you know, their behavior always becomes different. they become agitated and annoyed. but the thing is you can t actually, get anyone to come out of the rabbit hole, like, by them without they can come out but they have to do it by themselves. how did you do it? it s it s a long story. there was a series. my mental health improved. my social isolation decreased. qanon was always wrong. there was that. and it was almost like another conspiracy theory that took me out which is, before i even fell into qanon, i was a big supporter of julian assange. and just watching trump s justice department go
justice brett kavanaugh. do you agree with the president? god, no. again, that s not shocking, hallie, that the president of the united states again demanding that his justice department go after his political enemies. he tweeted this morning that barack obama s book deal ought to be investigated. using the government to demand that they go after his political enemies, hallie, that s what a would-be dictator does. former congressman joe walsh, i appreciate you being back on the show. coming up, the drugmaker accused of fuelling the opioid crisis. dozens of states are refusing to settle with per due. the potential for a multi-million dollar courtroom showdown soon.