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CNN commentator Scott Jennings, who is reportedly in contention to be President Donald Trump’s next White House press secretary, awkwardly paused for several seconds when asked if Trump has “a corruption problem.”
Jennings appeared on Tuesday’s edition of The Fifth Column podcast, where hosts Michael Moynihan, Kmele Foster, and Matt Welch grilled Jennings about Trump and his family’s business dealings:
MOYNIHAN: Does Donald Trump and the Trump administration have a corruption problem?
[Five second pause]
JENNINGS: Mmm. That’s a very generic question. I mean, is there something– pretty simple?
MOYNIHAN: I’ve given you the easiest possible way. If I get specific, pardons, pardon the Binance guy, for instance, World Liberty Financial coins, Russian guys paying for weddings, etc.
JENNINGS: Well, I think they paid him back, but I–
MOYNIHAN: Yeah, because it was covered by the media, right?
JENNINGS: No, I don’t think so.
MOYNIHAN: You think they were like, “We’ll get you next Tuesday”? It became a news story, and then Trump was like, they paid them back. I don’t think it was going to be. It was a gift.
JENNINGS: Ok, but to a guy who’s not in the government? I mean–
MOYNIHAN: So the president’s kids, I mean, you were probably pretty hard on that ne’er-do-well Biden kid.
JENNINGS: Well, he literally was in the White House serving as de facto chief of staff, according to the journalism that’s come out since.
MOYNIHAN: …I mean come on, the crypto stuff.
FOSTER: It’s a little crazy stuff.
MOYNIHAN: That’s crazy stuff.
WELCH: $148 million by selling access to people at a party near the White House.
FOSTER: And at a minimum, the sons, great. It’s not a Ukrainian energy company, but you opened in a club themed in a way that is evocative of the White House, that is only accessible to elites who are willing to pay quite a hefty fee. I mean, all of it at a mininum is kind of gross, right? Like there’s some taint to it.
JENNINGS: I’ll be candid with you. This is not my social world. I don’t necessarily exist in that world. I’m generally– I’m just a son of a garbage man from Kentucky. But my general expectation of them is that they should follow all the applicable laws and ethics regulations, and I believe that they are. Do I think that the Democrats are going to, if they were to win any majority of either chamber, do I think they’re going to dig into all this? Absolutely.
MOYNIHAN: Day one, I’m sure.
JENNINGS: My only advice would be make sure you’re dotting every I and crossing every T as it relates to the existing laws and regs. And if you do those things – and people will make claims about you or people make attacks about you – the best defense to anything is to say, “We follow all the laws, we follow the rules.” And that would be my advice.
WELCH: I mean, the brother of the president of the United Arab Emirates invested $500 million in World Liberty Financial four days before the inauguration. And it was secret. It was secret and the Trump family got $187 million and the Witkoff family got $31 million. And we found out about it a year later.
FOSTER: That seems bad.
WELCH: That seems bad, right? Like I’m not crazy here. That seems terrible.
JENNINGS: Like I said, in any specific item you could bring up in this regard, my only advice to anybody would be follow all the rules, follow all of the laws, document everything and be prepared for a probing if the other party becomes the majority party.
Watch above via The Fifth Column podcast.
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