"He didn't steal more"
Kara unloads on Trump's truly massive grift
Jul 2, 2026 · 44 min · 12 segments
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Kara SwisherGuestI mean, the, the, the most remarkable thing for me when I looked at the Trump situation, and I'm just gonna give you these numbers, 927 pages, Kara.
So, what does it, what does it speak to you about what we're allowing for? It's obviously gross violations.
You could ask any law professor, any lawyer, gross violations of the Stock Act.
Uh, God only knows if he's gonna pay any taxes, by the way, on any of that, because he has tax immunity now.

And, and y- you know, we don't see all of it because there's all these side deals with his sons when they go to other countries before Trump gets there.

Um, I think it's just one massive, you know, is it a mobster? Is it a con man? Is it, um, just basic grift and corruption? What's really interesting is they spent so much time accusing Joe Biden's son of very minor corruption, and I believe that was corruption for sure.

Back, way back to Billy Beer, and you know, it goes back and back and back for, for centuries, essentially, for our, in our country at least.

Um, but this is like, this is sort of institutionalized grift in a way that, uh, we haven't seen.

And I think when this family came back for the second time, they realized they didn't steal enough the first time, and then they came back for two reasons, to stay out of prison and to, uh, to take advantage of, of the, you know, the greatest platform in history to do grift.

Although I suspect there's all manner of stuff happening under the covers also at the same time.
I mean, the, the, the most remarkable thing for me when I looked at the Trump situation, and I'm just gonna give you these numbers, 927 pages, Kara.
So, what does it, what does it speak to you about what we're allowing for? It's obviously gross violations.
You could ask any law professor, any lawyer, gross violations of the Stock Act.
Uh, God only knows if he's gonna pay any taxes, by the way, on any of that, because he has tax immunity now.

And, and y- you know, we don't see all of it because there's all these side deals with his sons when they go to other countries before Trump gets there.

Um, I think it's just one massive, you know, is it a mobster? Is it a con man? Is it, um, just basic grift and corruption? What's really interesting is they spent so much time accusing Joe Biden's son of very minor corruption, and I believe that was corruption for sure.

Back, way back to Billy Beer, and you know, it goes back and back and back for, for centuries, essentially, for our, in our country at least.

Um, but this is like, this is sort of institutionalized grift in a way that, uh, we haven't seen.

And I think when this family came back for the second time, they realized they didn't steal enough the first time, and then they came back for two reasons, to stay out of prison and to, uh, to take advantage of, of the, you know, the greatest platform in history to do grift.

Although I suspect there's all manner of stuff happening under the covers also at the same time.
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