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During an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC News, Donald Trump said that he would take information from a foreign country if he felt that it could help his campaign and that no one in their right minds would contact the FBI. He contradicted himself multiple times in the short interview, but the bottom line is that he’s now willing to admit that he’d absolutely accept illegal foreign help for his campaigns. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
Yesterday, ABC News Era, a brief interview between George Stephanopoulos and Donald Trump inside the oval office, and George Stephanopoulos actually got Donald Trump to admit while sitting in the Oval Office that he's totally down for some light treason. If the opportunity arrives, here's the clip.
Somebody comes up and says, Hey, I have information on your opponent. You call the FBI.
If it's coming from Russia, you do.
I've seen a lot of things over my life. I don't think in my whole life I've ever called the FBI and my whole life, I don't. You don't call the FBI, you throw somebody out of your office, you do whatever...
Al Gore got a stolen briefing book. He called the FBI.
Well, that's different as stolen briefing, but this isn't a stuff. This is somebody that said, we have information on your opponent. Oh, let me call the FBI, give me a break. Life doesn't work that way.
The FBI director says that's what should happen.
The FBI director is wrong. Your campaign this time around. If foreigners, if Russia, if China, if someone else offers the information and opponents, should they accept it or should they call the FBI? I think maybe you do both. I think you might want to listen. I don't, there's nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, Norway, we have information on your opponent. Oh, I think I'd want to hear it. You want that kind of interference in our elections. It's not an interference. They have information. I think I'd take it.
So basically Donald Trump's sitting right there, one of the most prestigious offices on the planet and he says, yeah, I think I'd take it. I think I would accept foreign aid to help my campaign if, if I thought it would let me win that, that's illegal. I mean we just, we just had a huge, massive two year long investigation into whether or not this was the kind of thing Donald Trump and his kids and son in law would engage in. And now he's telling us, hell yeah, I'd do it. Maybe I'd call the FBI. Maybe I'd do both. Maybe I'd take the information from the foreign source, which again, that's illegal folks. Let's be 100% clear. That's illegal. And then he says, maybe I'd also call the FBI after I got it. Who knows? I'm crazy. I'm up in the air. I might do both. The other thing too though, that he said, um, as he said, he's, he's never called the FBI and his entire life he said that during the interview with George Stephanopoulos said, I have never in my life called the FBI, which is a total lie because actually in 1981 Donald Trump personally called the FBI and said, hey, I want to open up a casino in Atlantic city, but there appears to be a lot of mobsters mafia types running the casinos here.
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