Amanda Carpenter: Audit the White House

Trump may have the pardon power, but all those people making bank off of shady contracts from the administration or doing pay-to-play can lose all that money through forfeiture and seizure laws already on the books. Taxpayers are going to want their money back. And why are Chinese nationals continuing to bribe the president of the United States—and does his soft-on-China policies have anything to do with it? Plus: Trump used a catering cart to sneak out of Turkey, the Dems need to do a better job highlighting the fact that the White House is doing socialist-style company takeovers, and the National Guard will now be in DC until 2029.

Amanda Carpenter joins Tim Miller.

show notes:

• Amanda's Bulwark piece on undoing Trump's age of corruption
• Amanda's event with Protect Democracy and Vox on Aug. 19
• NYT story on Chinese national who gave $100 million to Trump's cryptocurrency company
• CATO on the government's ownership stakes in companies