During a 'Fight Oligarchy' event in Los Angeles, California on Saturday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke about President Trump being found guilty of 34 counts of fraud in New York and accused him of manipulating the stock market with his pause on tariffs.
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00:00You know, when I first got to Congress, I was genuinely shocked by how this place worked.
00:10Even having run against dark money on a campaign against it in the first place.
00:16The everyday influence of corruption and dark money was astonishing how normalized it is.
00:25In fact, Congress and members of Congress have somehow conditioned itself to actually believe
00:32that it is normal for elected representatives who swear an oath to the American people
00:39to day trade individual stocks that make millions with the sensitive information
00:46that we are entrusted with for the purpose of governing.
00:50How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their
00:59personal money is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stocks?
01:05They can't. You can't.
01:09And we saw this play out this week with Trump's corrupt and disastrous tariff scheme.
01:17I hope that we all see now that the White House's tariff shuffle here didn't have anything to do
01:26with manufacturing like they claimed.
01:29It was about manipulating the markets.
01:32It was about hurting retirees and everyday people in the sell-off so Trump could
01:38quietly enrich his friends who he nudged to buy the dip before reversing it all in the morning.
01:48Donald Trump is a criminal.
01:53A criminal.
01:55Found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud.
01:59Of course he is lying and manipulating the stock market too.
02:04He is at his best making himself, the billionaires who back him, and the members of Congress who trade with him rich.
02:13Not you. Not me. Not the people.
02:16And to be clear, I don't care what party you are, Democrat or Republican.
02:22I don't care what position one holds.
02:24Members of Congress and elected officials holding and trading individual stock is wrong.
02:30It must end and we must ban it.